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February

February

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The second month of the year between January and March
  • proper noun
  • /ˈfɛb.ruːˌɛr.i/
translation icon : febrero
  • Data collection for this study took place during February and March 2009.
  • February 2011
  • February 2010
  • February 2009

Like March is green, pink for me is February, blue is January.

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Examples

  • January is cold, but February usually brings a hint of spring.

  • Applications will be due by January 15, 2012, and teachers will be selected by February 15, 2012.

    Academic text (2011)
  • And it's now it's early February and.

  • So that was my February so fun.

  • Now here we're talking about the first week of February, right?

  • It's Super Bowl Sunday, February 5, 2017 the biggest stage in sports.

  • Just for the record, This is the 4th of February, 1997.

  • So yeah, Jasper came along in February of this year.

  • It's fairly pleasant out considering it's February. I always meant to try golf.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Any talk of Napoleon's defeat in late February was premature.

Synonyms

Feb
vsFebruary
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A short name for the second month of the year

is the full written name rather than a short form

Compounds

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An extra day in February that appears every four years

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A day each year when people celebrate love and give cards or gifts

A small European shrub with fragrant lilac flowers that bloom early and red poisonous berries

A 1917 Russian uprising that forced the tsar to give up power and set up a temporary government

The middle of February, about the 14th to 16th

Surface Forms

February main

Etymology

February comes from the Latin Februarius, named for the Roman festival Februa which was about 'purification'. So February became the month for cleaning and getting ready before spring, which helps explain its place at the end of winter in the calendar.