months
UK/mʌnθs/
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informal/mʌnts/
months is the plural of month.
Meaning of month
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.
- 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
- 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
Noun
months pl (plural only)
- A person's period; menstrual discharge.
Phrases with months
- R months
- ber months
- months man
- months men
- 13th months
- dump months
- leap months
- moon months
- worm months
- birth months
- ember months
- fence months
20 more phrasesFewer phrases
- light months
- lunar months
- Roman months
- gander months
- monsoon months
- months to date
- nodical months
- stellar months
- synodic months
- calendar months
- draconic months
- periodic months
- Platonic months
- sidereal months
- tropical months
- bissextile months
- draconitic months
- months of Sundays
- this day six months
- months of consecution
Questions about months
- What does months mean?
- Months means a person's period; menstrual discharge.
- What is months the plural of?
- Months is the plural of month.
- What part of speech is months?
- Months is a noun.
- How do you pronounce months?
- Months is pronounced /mʌnθs/ (UK).
Words near months in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: months (page history and authors); 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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