/mʌnθ/, /mʊnt̪/, /mʊnt/
- A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
“July is my favourite month.”
“Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measu”
- 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 < exase”
“Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < min”
“We went on holiday for two months.”
- in-plural, obsoleteA woman's period; menstrual discharge.
“Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months.”
Formsmonths(plural) · month(UK, colloquial, plural) · moneth(alternative)