month (English, noun)
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭnth
ipa: /mʌnθ/
tags: Ireland
ipa: /mʊnt̪/
note: Dublin
ipa: /mʊnt/
rhymes: -ʌnθ
Etymology: From Middle English mon(e)th, from Old English mōnaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably derived from *meh₁- (“measure”) with moon-cycles being used to measure time. Related to English moon.
Definitions: examples: text: July is my favourite month.
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text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
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glosses: A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
examples: text: We went on holiday for two months.
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text: Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
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text: With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.
ref: 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:
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glosses: A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
examples: text: Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
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glosses: A woman's period; menstrual discharge.
tags: in-plural
obsolete
Forms: form: months
tags: plural
form: month
tags: UK
colloquial
plural
form: moneth
tags: alternative
Synonyms: word: month
Hypernyms: word: period
Meronyms: word: week
word: day
Holonyms: bimester
trimester
quadrimester
semester
year
Coordinate terms: millennium
century
decade
year
week
day
hour
minute
moment
second
millisecond
microsecond
nanosecond
picosecond
femtosecond
attosecond
zeptosecond
yoctosecond
Derived terms: 13th month
ber month
bissextile month
calendar month
draconic month
draconitic month
dump months
Eastermonth
ember months
fence month
flavor of the month
flavour of the month
gander month
honey-month
leap month
light month
lunar month
man-month
month-long
monthly
month mind
month of consecution
month of Sundays
month's end
months-long
month's mind
month to date
moon month
never in a month of Sundays
nodical month
periodic month
person-month
pinch and a punch for the first of the month
Platonic month
R month
Roman month
run of month
sidereal month
six-month club
stellar month
synodic month
that time of the month
time of the month
tropical month
Yulemonth
Related terms: word: calendar
word: day
word: time
word: week
word: year
word: Tishrei
word: Cheshvan
word: Kislev
word: Tevet
word: Shevat
word: Adar
word: Nisan
word: Iyar
word: Sivan
word: Tammuz
word: Av
word: Elul
word: Muharram
word: Safar
word: Rabi I
word: Rabi II
word: Jumada I
word: Jumada II
word: Rajab
word: Sha'ban
word: Ramadan
word: Shawwal
word: Dhu'l-Qa'da
word: Dhu'l-Hijja
word: :Category:Months
word: Appendix:Months of the Islamic year
word: Appendix:Months of the Chinese Year