mth

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