October
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- proper noun
- /ɒkˈtoʊbər/
:
octubre
- I will see you in October with Halloween.
- October 2010
- October 2009
- October 2011
They were doing huge, massive parcels from October to sort of April.
- They were doing huge, massive parcels from October to sort of April.
- That means that there's three slots open October, November, December.
- Keep this account until October of this year.
- No, because last autumn in October we had an accident here.
- Do you want them earlier or is October, November good?
- And once you go to a talk in October, this was October last year.
- But this rebellion was also suppressed by October for the time being.
- This has been scheduled in like October for a Thanksgiving Day fight.
- And then that freezes from maybe October, November through till April.
Examples
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I will visit my grandparents in October for the family reunion.
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Can you believe it's nearly October?
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Keep this account until October of this year.
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Find that date for me in October in Chicago also.
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I knew she was back in town because last October I had a note from her.
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I remember very clearly one morning in October 1967, when I was walking to class.
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In October, Madeleine makes a special appearance on the show.
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Data were collected in the two schools over a five-month period from October to February.
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Just after 8 p.m. on October 30, 1938, a news flash interrupted a popular radio show.
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At the light sits Rhode Island's first mail, built in October of 1967, when I was 10 years old.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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A short form for the month of October
Compounds
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A public holiday in some countries to remember the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492
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A revolution in Russia in 1917 when Lenin's Bolsheviks overthrew the temporary government and began communist rule
A militant group that wants Turkey to admit the Armenian genocide, pay compensation, and give land to Armenia
A Spanish armed group that tried to overthrow the government to make a communist state
Surface Forms
Etymology
October comes from the Latin root octo, which means 'eight' and appears in words like octagon and octopus, because in the old Roman calendar it was the eighth month. Later two months were added at the start of the year, so October became the tenth month, which is why the name does not match its number today.