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moneth

moneth is the obsolete spelling of month.

Meaning of month

Noun

month (plural months or (UK colloquial) month)

  1. A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
    • July is my favourite month.
  2. A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
    • Holonyms: bimester < trimester < quadrimester < semester < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
  3. (in plural, obsolete) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.
    • Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

Forms of moneth

pluralmoneths

Questions about moneth

What is moneth the obsolete spelling of?
Moneth is the obsolete spelling of month.

Words near moneth in the dictionary

  1. monetary policies
  2. monetary policy
  3. monetary unit
  4. monetary units
  5. Monetesque
  6. moneth
  7. monethly
  8. moneths
  9. monetisable
  10. monetisation
  11. monetisations

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