Word.ws English Dictionary

november

Syllables: No·vem·berUK/nəʊˈvɛmbə//noʊˈvɛmbɚ/

november is the alternative letter-case form of November from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

Proper noun capitalized: November

November (plural Novembers)

  1. The eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following October and preceding December.
    • Holonyms: calendar year; year
    • Red o'er the forest glows the setting sun, / The line of yellow light dies fast away / That crown'd the eastern copse, and chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.1827, [John Keble], “Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter...
    Synonyms:
    Eleventh Month
  2. A female given name.

Synonyms of november

Forms of november

pluralNovembers
alternative abbreviationNov
alternative abbreviationNov.
alternative abbreviationNOV
alternative form (obsolete)Novembre

Origin of november

From Middle English Novembre, from Old French novembre, from Latin November (“ninth month”), from Latin novem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix. November was the ninth month in the Roman calendar. Displaced native Old English blōtmōnaþ (literally “sacrifice month”), so called because the Anglo-Saxons, when they were pagans, would sacrifice in this month before the winter set in.

Words formed from november

Phrases with november

Words that rhyme with november

Questions about november

What does november mean?
November means the eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following October and preceding December.
What is november the alternative letter-case form of?
November is the alternative letter-case form of November from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
What part of speech is november?
November is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce november?
November is pronounced /nəʊˈvɛmbə/ (UK).

Words near november in the dictionary

  1. novelty songs
  2. novelty theory
  3. novelwright
  4. novelwrights
  5. Novem.
  6. november
  7. November class
  8. November criminal
  9. November Criminals
  10. November Eve
  11. November moth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: november (page history and authors); November (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-november.wav.

Cite this entry: “november.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/november. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.