month
/mʌnθ/
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Ireland/mʊnt̪/
month noun: a period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
Noun
month (plural months or (UK colloquial) month)
- A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
- July is my favourite month.
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is...2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
- 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
- Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight
- 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
month meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
month in Hindi
- period into which a year is divided
- महीना mahīnā, मास mās, माह māh, मासक māsak
month in Tamil
- period into which a year is divided
- மாதம் mātam, மாசம் mācam, திங்கள் tiṅkaḷ
month in Marathi
- period into which a year is divided
- महिना mahinā
month in Urdu
- period into which a year is divided
- مَہِینا mahīnā, مَہِینَہ mahīna, ماہ māh, ماس mās
More languagesFewer languages
- month in Bengali
- মাস maś, মাহ maho
- month in Telugu
- నెల nela, మాసము māsamu
- month in Malayalam
- മാസം māsaṁ
- month in Kannada
- ಮಾಸ māsa, ತಿಂಗಳು tiṅgaḷu
- month in Punjabi
- ਮਾਹ māh, ਮਹੀਨਾ mahīnā, ਮਾਸ mās, مَان٘ہہ m مَہِینَہ māṉh
- month in Gujarati
- મહિનો mahino
- month in Odia
- ମାସ māsa
- month in Sanskrit
- मास māsa
- month in Sinhala
- මාසය māsaya
- month in Assamese
- মাহ mah
- month in Nepali
- महिना mahinā
- month in Pashto
- مياشت myāšt
- month in Tagalog
- buwan
- month in Arabic
- شَهْر šahr
- month in Malay
- bulan, purnama
- month in Indonesian
- bulan
- month in Thai
- เดือน dʉʉan, มาส mâat
- month in Vietnamese
- tháng
- month in Myanmar
- လ la.
- Sindhi
- مهنو mno
- Kashmiri
- رؠتھ ryath
Examples of month in a sentence
- We went on holiday for two months.
- Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
- With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:
Forms of month
| plural | months |
|---|---|
| alternative form | moneth |
| plural UK (colloquial) | month |
Origin of month
From Middle English mon(e)th, from Old English mōnaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably derived from *meh₁- (“measure”) with moon-cycles being used to measure time. Related to moon. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mound (“month”), Dutch maand (“month”), German Low German Maand (“month”), German Monat (“month”), Danish måned (“month”), Swedish månad (“month”), Icelandic mánuður (“month”). Eclipsed non-native Old English calend (“month”), borrowed from Latin calendae.
Words formed from month
- 13th month
- ber month
- birth month
- birthmonth
- bissextile month
- calendar month
- draconic month
- draconitic month
- dump months
- Eastermonth
- ember months
- fence month
- flavor of the month
- flavour of the month
- gander month
- halfmonth
- honey-month
- intermonth
- intramonth
- leap month
- light month
- lunar month
- man-month
- midmonth
- monsoon months
- month by month
- monther
- monthful
- month hand
- monthiversary
- monthless
- monthling
- monthlong
- month-long
- monthly
- month man
- month mind
- month of consecution
- month of Sundays
- monthsary
- month's end
- months-long
- monthslong
- months man
- month's mind
- month to date
- moon month
- multimonth
- never in a month of Sundays
- nodical month
- periodic month
- person-month
- pinch and a punch for the first of the month
- Platonic month
- R month
- Roman month
- run of month
- sidereal month
- sixmonth
- six-month club
Phrases with month
- month men
- worm month
- Fifth Month
- First Month
- month minds
- Ninth Month
- Pride Month
- Sixth Month
- Tenth Month
- Third Month
- Wrath Month
- Eighth Month
22 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Fourth Month
- Month of May
- Second Month
- yester month
- monsoon month
- Seventh Month
- stellar month
- synodic month
- Twelfth Month
- Eleventh Month
- tropical month
- Gay Pride Month
- LGBT Pride Month
- time of the month
- Better Sleep Month
- times of the month
- Black History Month
- month in, month out
- flavors of the month
- flavours of the month
- that time of the month
- African American History Month
Words that rhyme with month
Questions about month
- What does month mean?
- Month means a period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
- What is month in Hindi?
- Month in Hindi is महीना (mahīnā), मास (mās), माह (māh). See Month meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use month in a sentence?
- We went on holiday for two months.
- What part of speech is month?
- Month is a noun.
- How do you pronounce month?
- Month is pronounced /mʌnθ/.
- What is the plural of month?
- The plural of month is months.
Words near month in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: month (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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