October
Syllables: Oc·to·berUK/ɒkˈtəʊ.bə//ɑkˈtoʊ.bəɹ/
October proper noun: the tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November.
Proper noun
October (plural Octobers)
- The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November.
- Holonyms: calendar year; year
- By October it was advancing steadily toward Pangwa, encountering meager resistance.2025 July 18, Timothy McLaughlin, “A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border. The Kachin Independence Organization fought for decades in obscurity. Now it's supplying essential...
- Synonyms:
- Tenth Month
- A female given name transferred from the month name.
- The other one [book] I just read is October Suite by Maxine Clair (Random House, $23.95). It's about a woman named October. She's a young black schoolteacher in the 1950s ...2002 January, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 35, number 4, page 138
- From somewhere in the distance came the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle's siren. Lance flipped open his phone. “Get me the address of a woman named October Guinness . . . That's right, October,” he said again, [...]2009, C.S. Graham, The Archangel Project, →ISBN, page 31
Noun
October (uncountable)
- A type of ale traditionally brewed in October.
- Sir, if I vvas vvorthy to adviſe you, I vvou'd have a Bottle of good October by me. Shall I ſet a Cup of old Stingo at your Elbovv?1716 March 21 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], The Drummer; or, The Haunted House. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1716 (indicated as 1715), →OCLC...
- [T]he gate of a large chateau, of a most noble and venerable appearance […] induced them to alight and view the apartments, contrary to their first intention of drinking a glass of his October at the door.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
Verb
October (third-person singular simple present Octobers, present participle Octobering, simple past and past participle Octobered)
- In the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religious christening.
October meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
October in Hindi
- tenth month of the Gregorian calendar
- अक्टूबर akṭūbar
October in Tamil
- tenth month of the Gregorian calendar
- அக்டோபர் akṭōpar
October in Marathi
- tenth month of the Gregorian calendar
- ऑक्टोबर ŏkṭobar
October in Urdu
- tenth month of the Gregorian calendar
- اَکْٹُوبَر akṭūbar, اَکْتُوبَر aktūbar
More languagesFewer languages
- October in Bengali
- অক্টোবর okṭōbor
- October in Telugu
- అక్టోబరు akṭōbaru
- October in Malayalam
- ഒക്ടോബർ okṭōbaṟ
- October in Kannada
- ಅಕ್ಟೋಬರ್ akṭōbar
- October in Punjabi
- ਅਕਤੂਬਰ akatūbar
- October in Gujarati
- ઑક્ટોબર ŏkṭobar, ઓક્ટોબર okṭobar
- October in Odia
- ଅକ୍ଟୋବର akṭobara
- October in Sinhala
- ඔක්තෝබර් oktōbar
- October in Assamese
- অক্টোবৰ oktübor
- October in Pashto
- اکټوبر akṭóbár
- October in Tagalog
- Oktubre
- October in Arabic
- أَكْتُوبَر ʔaktobar, تِشْرِين الْأَوَّل tišrīn al-ʔawwal
- October in Malay
- Oktober
- October in Indonesian
- oktober
- October in Thai
- ตุลาคม dtù-laa-kom
- October in Vietnamese
- tháng mười
- October in Myanmar
- အောက်တိုဘာ auktuibha, ဆယ်လ hcaila.
- Dhivehi
- އޮކްޓޫބަރު ok̊ṭūbaru
- Dzongkha
- སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ། spyi zla bcu gnyis pa
Synonyms of October
Forms of October
| Proper noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | Octobers |
| alternative abbreviation | Oct |
| alternative abbreviation | Oct. |
| alternative abbreviation | OCT |
| alternative form (obsolete) | Octobre |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | Octobers |
| present participle | Octobering |
| past participle | Octobered |
| past | Octobered |
Origin of October
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French octobre, from Latin Octōber (“eighth month”), from Latin octō (“eight”), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw (“twice four”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar.
Words formed from October
- 6th of October
- Goretober
- humming October
- Inktober
- Kinktober
- Locktober
- mid-October
- October 7
- October 8th Jew
- October beer
- October-bird
- October effect
- Octoberfest
- Octoberish
- Octoberist
- Octobrist
- Octoberly
- October Revolution
- October surprise
- October War
- Octobery
- Octobral
- Red October
- Rocktober
- Spooktober
- Striketober
Phrases with October
Words that rhyme with October
Questions about October
- What does October mean?
- October means the tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November.
- What is October in Hindi?
- October in Hindi is अक्टूबर (akṭūbar). See October meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is October?
- October can be a proper noun, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce October?
- October is pronounced /ɒkˈtəʊ.bə/ (UK).
Words near October in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: October (page history and authors); ઑક્ટોબર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); অক্টোবৰ (Assamese) (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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