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Feb

Feb

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A short name for the second month of the year
  • noun
  • /fɛb/
translation icon : feb
  • A. Kovalev; L. Lub; Q. Yin (FOR) FEB 10

So fingers crossed you know, for for a bullish Feb, March, April.

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Examples

  • UPDATE 29 FEB - I have announced the release of the TomiAhonen Almanac 2012.

    Blog text (28)

  • So fingers crossed you know, for for a bullish Feb, March, April.

    Meet Kevin

  • So he died, found out in Feb, died in May.

    Happy Hour Podcast

  • This was all like late Jan to to Feb right here, right.

  • I hope it happens like some sometime in, you know, January, Feb, Feb, Feb.

  • Small business technology program gains new lease on life (IE) FEB 24

    Academic text (2012)

  • With 2012 budgets set, the outlook for R&D clouds up (IE) FEB 27.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Climate scientists not cowed by relentless climate change deniers (IE) FEB 22.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The Large Hadron Collider yields tantalizing hints of the Higgs boson (SD) FEB 16

    Academic text (2012)

  • The project deadline is set for Feb 15, so we need to finish it by then.

Synonyms

February
vsFeb
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The second month of the year between January and March

is the shortened written form of that month used in writing

Compounds

Feb 2
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A Christian feast day on February 2 and a traditional Scottish day when rent is due

Surface Forms

Feb singular
Febs plural

Etymology

Feb is the short form of February, which comes from Latin Februarius and the word februa meaning 'purification', because the Romans had a cleaning festival at that time. So Feb is simply the abbreviated name for the second month of the year.