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month

month

1.0
A period of about four weeks or one of the twelve parts of the year
  • noun
  • /mʌnθ/
translation icon : mes
  • Let's talk now about the month of October.
  • last month
  • next month
  • months ago

What day, what week, what month, what hour, right?

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Examples

  • In a few months' time, you and me are going to be outnumbered.

  • So hope you have a great month ahead in April.

  • See you in a couple of months and wish me luck.

  • What will happen in three months, four months, five months?

  • Usually within weeks or months they will come down.

  • Every month hundreds of claims come to this desk.

  • I've been waiting ten months for this.

  • Data were collected in the two schools over a five-month period from October to February.

    Academic text (2011)
  • I'll be in Denver next month at their MUFON.

  • I plan to travel to Europe next month for my vacation.

Synonyms

calendar month
vsmonth
2 1.0

A period from the first to the last day of a named month

is any roughly four week or thirty day period not tied to numbered days
solar month
vsmonth
  • Specialized
5.8

A period of about one twelfth of a year that comes from Earth's movement around the Sun

is a general roughly four week period rather than an astronomical fraction
mensis
vsmonth
  • Specialized
9.9

A monthly period of bleeding in women

is the common four week or named yearly period, not a medical cycle

Idioms

1 9.8

A very long time that seems not likely to end

Happens gradually from one month to the next

month of Sundays
  • Informal
8.6

A very long time that seems to last forever

Compounds

9 6.8

The time when a woman has her monthly period

A worker chosen each month for doing very good work

The day in a month shown by a number on a calendar

A period from the first to the last day of a named month

lunar month
  • Specialized
1 3.6

About 29 and a half days from one new moon to the next

anomalistic month
  • Specialized
9.9

The time the Moon takes to return to its closest point to Earth, about 27.5 days

man-month
  • Specialized
6.5

The work one person does in one month used to plan a project

A month in the French Revolutionary calendar used in France from 1793 to 1805

synodic month
  • Specialized
9.3

The time between one new moon and the next, about 29.5 days

sidereal month
  • Specialized
9.8

It takes about 27 days for the Moon to return to the same place among the stars

solar month
  • Specialized
5.8

A period of about one twelfth of a year that comes from Earth's movement around the Sun

How Long

year
1.0
season
1.0
month
1.0
fortnight
  • UK
24 2.7
week
1.0
day
1.0

Surface Forms

month singular
months plural

Etymology

Month comes from the same old root as moon, meaning 'the moon', because people used the moon to measure time. At first it meant the time from one full moon to the next, so a month is about four weeks long.