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GREGORIAN CALENDAR MONTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Gregorian calendar month mean?
• GREGORIAN CALENDAR MONTH (noun)
The noun GREGORIAN CALENDAR MONTH has 1 sense:
1. a month in the Gregorian calendar
Familiarity information: GREGORIAN CALENDAR MONTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GREGORIAN CALENDAR MONTH (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A month in the Gregorian calendar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Gregorian calendar month" is a kind of...):
calendar month; month (one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Gregorian calendar month"):
Jan; January (the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice)
Feb; February (the month following January and preceding March)
Mar; March (the month following February and preceding April)
Apr; April (the month following March and preceding May)
May (the month following April and preceding June)
June (the month following May and preceding July)
July (the month following June and preceding August)
Aug; August (the month following July and preceding September)
Sep; Sept; September (the month following August and preceding October)
Oct; October (the month following September and preceding November)
Nov; November (the month following October and preceding December)
Dec; December (the last (12th) month of the year)
Holonyms ("Gregorian calendar month" is a part of...):
Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)
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