calendar

A2 Topic:Time

US /ˈkæl.ən.dɚ/ UK /ˈkæl.ən.də/ See IPA manual

Minimal pairs

Sounds like colander /æ/ vs /ɑ/

noun verb Freq #5972

Meanings

1

noun
A chart or set of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a year.

Write his birthday on the calendar on the wall.
2

noun
A list of planned events or activities.

The club has a busy calendar this year.
3

noun
A system for dividing time into days, months, and years.

The Gregorian calendar is used in most of the world.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

2 noun · a list of planned events or... agenda schedule

Word family

Forms calendaredcalendaringcalendars

Derived forms calendarercalendarialcalendariccalendarisecalendaristcalendaristiccalendarizationcalendarizecalendarlesscalendarlikecalendiccalendographer

Common collocations

calendar month Adjective + noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Old French calendierbor. Middle English kalender English calendar From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from kalō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium. Displaced native Old English rīmbōc and ġerīmbōc.

kalender Middle English calendier Old French calendarium Latin *kelh₁- Proto-Indo-European

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Topics

Time

# calendar

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A2
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** ˈkæl.ən.dɚ
**IPA (UK):** ˈkæl.ən.də
**Frequency rank:** 5972

## Meanings
1. A chart or set of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a year.
2. A list of planned events or activities.
3. A system for dividing time into days, months, and years.

## Examples
- Write his birthday on the calendar on the wall.
- The club has a busy calendar this year.
- The Gregorian calendar is used in most of the world.

## Derived Forms
- calendarer
- calendarial
- calendaric
- calendarise
- calendarist
- calendaristic
- calendarization
- calendarize
- calendarless
- calendarlike
- calendic
- calendographer

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: kalender
- Root: calendier
- Root: calendarium
- Root: *kelh₁-

## Etymology
Etymology tree Old French calendierbor. Middle English kalender English calendar From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from kalō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium. Displaced native Old English rīmbōc and ġerīmbōc.

## AI Etymology
Calendar comes from Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from kalō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium. Displaced native Old English rīmbōc and ġerīmbōc. Calendar follows a historical chain through Old French calendier, Middle English kalen, English calendar.

## Topics
- Time

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