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JUNE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The month following May and preceding July
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("June" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "June"):
Davis' Birthday; Jefferson Davis' Birthday; June 3 (celebrated in southern United States)
Flag Day; June 14 (commemorating the adoption of the United States flag in 1777)
Father's Day (US: third Sunday in June)
June 29; Saints Peter and Paul (first celebrated in the 3rd century)
mid-June (the middle part of June)
June 21; midsummer; summer solstice (June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point)
June 24; Midsummer's Day; Midsummer Day; St John's Day (a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland)
June 23; Midsummer Eve; Midsummer Night; St John's Eve; St John's Night (the night before Midsummer Day)
Holonyms ("June" is a part of...):
Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)
Context examples:
It all began on June 27, when Matty Roberts posted a event invitation on social media site Facebook.
(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)
The findings are good news for the Europa Clipper mission, which may launch as early as June 2022.
(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)
On the 9th day of June, 1709, I arrived at Nangasac, after a very long and troublesome journey.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
This was the third smallest June extent since records began in 1979.
(June 2015 was warmest June on record for the globe, NOAA)
Even now, she speaks with pleasure of being in Mansfield in June; but June is at a great distance, and I believe I shall write to her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I do not intend to sail until the month of June; and when shall I return?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Miss Harville only died last June.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
But, my dear child, the time is drawing near; here is April, and June, or say even July, is very near, with such business to accomplish before us.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
And you will not cast your underclothing until June is in.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And she was only sixteen last June.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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