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month

[ muhnth ]

noun

  1. Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  2. the time from any day of one calendar month to the corresponding day of the next.
  3. a period of four weeks or 30 days.
  4. Also called so·lar month. one-twelfth of a solar or tropical year.
  5. Also called lu·nar month. the period of a complete revolution of the moon around the earth, as the period between successive new moons synodic month, equal to 29.531 days, or the period between successive conjunctions with a star sidereal month, equal to 27.322 days, or the period between successive perigees anomalistic month, equal to 27.555 days, or the period between successive similar nodes nodical month, or draconic month, equal to 27.212 days.
  6. an unusually long period of time of indefinite length:

    I haven't seen him for months.



month

/ mʌnθ /

noun

  1. one of the twelve divisions ( calendar months ) of the calendar year
  2. a period of time extending from one date to a corresponding date in the next calendar month
  3. a period of four weeks or of 30 days
  4. the period of time ( tropical month ) taken by the moon to return to the same longitude after one complete revolution around the earth; 27.321 58 days (approximately 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 4.5 seconds)
  5. the period of time ( sidereal month ) taken by the moon to make one complete revolution around the earth, measured between two successive conjunctions with a distant star; 27.321 66 days (approximately 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 11 seconds)
  6. Also calledlunation the period of time ( lunar or synodic month ) taken by the moon to make one complete revolution around the earth, measured between two successive new moons; 29.530 59 days (approximately 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 3 seconds)
  7. a month of Sundays informal.
    a long unspecified period
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of month1

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English mōnath; cognate with Old High German mānōd, Old Norse mānathr. See moon
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Word History and Origins

Origin of month1

Old English mōnath; related to Old High German mānōd, Old Norse mānathr; compare Gothic mena moon
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. a month of Sundays. Sunday 1( def 4 ).

More idioms and phrases containing month

In addition to the idiom beginning with month , also see by the day (month) ; (for months) on end .
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Example Sentences

In the sixth months that ended July 31, sales were $242 million, a 133% year-over-year increase.

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The service is planned to launch before year-end with a price of $10 per month or $80 per year.

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The Premiere subscription is $30 per month, which includes 2 TB of iCloud storage, as well as the rest of the services.

With under two months until Oceanside’s police chief is set to retire, residents have raised concerns about the city’s hiring process for his replacement, and the city manager has paused the process to reconsider its approach.

Now the PPP funds have run out, and we’re well into month six of a lockdown that doesn’t show signs of ending anytime soon.

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A Charlie Hebdo reporter said that security provision had been relaxed in the last month or so and the police car disappeared.

The month of May will see an Irish referendum on the legalization of same-sex marriage.

As he tried to make his way through a crowd of mourners late last month, he looked preoccupied and even disoriented.

The Daily Beast has followed some of the refugees who landed in Sicily a month ago.

And with regular clients that see him at least twice a month, relationships inevitably form.

On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

The Father had been in sore straits of mind, as month after month had passed without tidings of his "blessed child."

After an eight weeks' siege, a breach having been made, the city surrendered, and a month later the fort followed the example.

A little boy of two years and one month was once asked to give a lot of old toys to the children of the gardener.

The first month I was here, when there were only five of us, it was quite another matter, but now the room is crowded every time.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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