MONTH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A time unit of approximately 30 days

Example:

he was given a month to pay the bill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("month" is a kind of...):

time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)

Meronyms (parts of "month"):

full; full-of-the-moon; full moon; full phase of the moon (the time when the Moon is fully illuminated)

half-moon (the time at which the Moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated)

new moon; new phase of the moon (the time at which the Moon appears as a narrow waxing crescent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "month"):

lunar month; lunation; moon; synodic month (the period between successive new moons (29.531 days))

anomalistic month (period between successive perigees; approximately 27.5546 days)

sidereal month (period between successive conjunctions with a star, 27.322 days)

solar month (one-twelfth of a solar or tropical year)

Holonyms ("month" is a part of...):

year (the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun)

Derivation:

monthly (of or occurring or payable every month)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the twelve divisions of the calendar year

Example:

he paid the bill last month

Synonyms:

calendar month; month

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("month" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meronyms (parts of "month"):

calendar week; week (a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "month"):

date (the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred)

Revolutionary calendar month (a month in the Revolutionary calendar)

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Jewish calendar month (a month in the Jewish calendar)

Islamic calendar month (any lunar month in the Muslim calendar)

Hindu calendar month (any lunisolar month in the Hindu calendar)

Derivation:

monthly (of or occurring or payable every month)

Credits

Context examples:

I can leave them at the Great House very well, for a month or six weeks.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"If something very pleasant should happen now, we should think it a delightful month," said Beth, who took a hopeful view of everything, even November.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

For weeks and months he never made a sound, in the black silence eating his very soul.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A 10-item self-report questionnaire that measures a person's evaluation of the stressfulness of life situations in the past month.

(Perceived Stress Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Scale (PDQUALIF) Compared to 6 months ago, my Parkinson's symptoms are.

(PDQUALIF - Parkinson's Symptoms, NCI Thesaurus)

A period of time consisting of the 6 months before the present.

(Past 6 Months, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): 2 months is the focalDuration for a question such as "Have you smoked in the last 2 months?".

(Performed Observation Focal Duration, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A non-neoplastic or neoplastic disorder occurring during the period from about five months before birth to one month after birth.

(Perinatal Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Several months passed in this manner.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A drug used to treat breast cancer that has spread or that has come back within 6 months after chemotherapy.