monthly

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Happening or done once a month.

   I make a monthly payment on my car loan.

2. 2
   adv

   Once a month.

   The book club meets monthly to discuss what we've read.

3. 3
   noun

   A magazine published once a month.

   She writes a column for a popular fashion monthly.

Common collocations

• monthly bill Adjective + noun

From month + -ly (adjectival suffix), perhaps via Middle English *monethly (attested only adverbially), from Old English mōnaþlīċ (“monthly”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþlīk, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþlīkaz (“monthly”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian moundelk (“monthly”), German monatlich (“monthly”), Danish månedlig (“monthly”), Swedish månatlig (“monthly”), Norwegian Bokmål månedlig (“monthly”), Icelandic mánaðarlegur (“monthly”).

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