month

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a time unit of approximately 30 days

   They were given a month to pay the bill.

2. 2
   noun

   one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year

   I paid the bill last month.

3. 3
   noun

   A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.

   July is my favourite month.

4. 4
   noun

   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 < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond

5. 5
   noun

   A woman's period; menstrual discharge.

   Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥sder. Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ Old English mōnaþ Middle English mon(e)th English month From Middle English mon(e)th, from Old English mōnaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably derived from *meh₁- (“measure”) with moon-cycles being used to measure time. Related to moon.