1. month(n = noun.time) calendar month - one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year; "he paid the bill last month"
is a kind of period, period of time, time period
has parts: calendar week, week
has particulars: date, revolutionary calendar month, gregorian calendar month, jewish calendar month, islamic calendar month, hindu calendar month
Derived form adjective monthly1
2. month(n = noun.time) Array - a time unit of approximately 30 days; "he was given a month to pay the bill"
is a kind of time unit, unit of time
is a part of year
has parts: new moon, new phase of the moon, half-moon, full, full-of-the-moon, full moon, full phase of the moon
has particulars: lunar month, lunation, moon, synodic month, anomalistic month, sidereal month, solar month
Derived form adjective monthly1
One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month. [1913 Webster]
" In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed.
month, n.
1 (in full calendar month) a each of usu. twelve periods into which a year is divided. b a period of time between the same dates in successive calendar months.
2 a period of 28 days or of four weeks.
3 = lunar month.
Idiom:
month of Sundays a very long period.
Etymology:
OE monath f. Gmc, rel. to MOON
N period, age, era, second, minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade, decenniumm lustrum, quinquennium, lifetime, generation, epoch, ghurry, lunation, moon, century, millennium, annus magnus, horary, hourly, annual.
anomalistic month, calendar month, day of the month, each month, every month, gregorian calendar month, hindu calendar month, islamic calendar month, jewish calendar month, lunar month, month by month, month of sundays, revolutionary calendar month, sidereal month, solar month, synodic month