calendar

A2
US /ˈkæl.ən.dɚ/ UK /ˈkæl.ən.də/
noun verb Freq #5972

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a list or register of events

    I have you on my calendar for next Monday

  2. 2
    noun

    Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.

    The three principal calendars are the Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic calendars.

  3. 3
    noun

    A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.

    Write his birthday on the calendar hanging on the wall.

  4. 4
    noun

    A list of planned events.

    The club has a busy calendar this year.

  5. 5
    noun

    An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.

    a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court

  6. 6
    verb

    To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.

    The judge agreed to calendar a hearing for pretrial motions for the week of May 15, but did not agree to calendar the trial itself on a specific date.

  7. 7
    verb

    To enter or write in a calendar; to register.

    Wee are generally more apt to Kalender Saints then Sinners dayes.

  8. 8
    noun

    a tabular array of the days (usually for one year)

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.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms
4 noun · a list of planned events. agendacalendsdocketschedule
Word family
Derived forms calendarercalendarialcalendariccalendarisecalendaristcalendaristiccalendarizationcalendarizecalendarlesscalendarlikecalendiccalendographer

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