month
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭnth
ipa: /mʌnθ/
ipa: /mʊnt̪/
note: Dublin
ipa: /mʊnt/
rhymes: -ʌnθ
Forms: form: months
form: month
form: moneth
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 moon.
Senses: examples: text: July is my favourite month.
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:
glosses: A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
examples: text: Holonyms: bimester < trimester < quadrimester < semester < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
text: Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight
text: We went on holiday for two months.
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:
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:
text: The demolition of two mosques in India within days of each other has highlighted the deep religious divide in the country, months before voters head to the polls for a nationwide election that is expected to hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi a rare third term in power.
ref: 2024 February 15, Aishwarya S Iyer and Rhea Mogul, “‘Erasing a part of history’ – What a double mosque demolition tells us about India ahead of crucial election”, in CNN:
related: word: mo
word: mo.
word: mon
word: mons
word: mul:m
word: mul:M
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:
glosses: A woman's period; menstrual discharge.
Synonyms: word: month
Hypernyms: word: period
Meronyms: word: week
word: day
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
halfmonth
honey-month
intermonth
intramonth
leap month
light month
lunar month
man-month
midmonth
month by month
monther
monthful
monthiversary
monthling
monthlong
month-long
monthly
month mind
month of consecution
month of Sundays
monthsary
month's end
months-long
monthslong
month's mind
month to date
moon month
multimonth
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
twelvemonth
worm month
yestermonth
Yulemonth
Related terms: word: calendar
word: :Category:Months
word: Appendix:Months of the Islamic year
word: Appendix:Months of the Chinese Year