calendar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæl.ən.də/
enpr: kălʹən-dər
ipa: /ˈkæl.ən.dɚ/
ipa: [ˈkʰæl.(ə)n.dɚ]
rhymes: -æləndə(ɹ)
homophone: calender
homophone: qalandar
homophone: Callander
Forms: form: calendars
form: kalendar
form: calender
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French calendierbor.
Middle English kalender
English calendar
From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from calō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium.
Senses: examples: text: The three principal calendars are the Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic calendars.
glosses: Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
examples: text: Write his birthday on the calendar hanging on the wall.
glosses: A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.
examples: text: The club has a busy calendar this year.
glosses: A list of planned events.
examples: text: a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court
text: Shepherds of People, had need know the Kalenders of Tempeſts in State; which are commonly greateſt, when Things grow to Equality; As naturall Tempeſts are greateſt about the Æquinoctia.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles. XV.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 76:
text: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:
glosses: An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.
glosses: An appointment book (US), appointment diary (UK)
Synonyms: sense: list of planned events
word: agenda
sense: list of planned events
word: schedule
sense: list of planned events
word: docket
sense: list of planned events
word: calends
Hyponyms: english: monthly calendar
translation: monthly calendar
word: menologium
word: martyrology
english: calendar of saints' days
translation: calendar of saints' days
word: menologium
word: kalendar
english: liturgical calendar
translation: liturgical calendar
word: menaion
Derived terms: Advent calendar
calendar anomaly
calendar clock
calendar day
calendar effect
calendarer
calendarial
calendaric
calendarise
calendarist
calendaristic
calendarization
calendarize
calendarless
calendarlike
calendar method
calendar month
calendar spread
calendar year
calendic
calendographer
calendric
calendrical
calendrics
calendry
Chinese calendar
Common-Civil-Calendar-and-Time Calendar
cosmic calendar
desk calendar
desktop calendar
diagonal calendar
extracalendar
French Republican Calendar
Gregorian calendar
Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar
Hebrew calendar
Islamic calendar
Jewish calendar
Julian calendar
lunar calendar
lunisolar calendar
Mayan Long Count calendar
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
miscalendar
solar calendar