APRIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does April mean? 

• APRIL (noun)
  The noun APRIL has 1 sense:

1. the month following March and preceding May

  Familiarity information: APRIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APRIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following March and preceding May

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Apr; April

Hypernyms ("April" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "April"):

All Fools' day; April Fools'; April Fools' day (the first day of April which is celebrated by playing practical jokes)

April 14; Pan American Day (a day celebrating political and economic unity among American countries)

Patriot's Day (the 3rd Monday in April; Massachusetts and Maine celebrate the battle of Lexington and Concord in 1775)

mid-April (the middle part of April)

Holonyms ("April" 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)

 Context examples 

It tends to be brightest between April and June, though it does occur at other times of the year.

(Earthshine, NASA)

April and the first two weeks of May will be exceptionally strong months where you will find you can take control and drive your life precisely where you want it to go.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

At the end of April, OSIRIS images revealed the comet was active — spewing out enough gas and dust to create an extended coma.

(Rosetta closing in on comet, NASA)

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of the sun setting at the close of the mission's 956th Martian day, or sol (April 15, 2015), from the rover's location in Gale Crater.

(Sunset in Mars' Gale Crater, NASA)

In April, archaeologists unearthed several mummies, 10 colourful wooden sarcophagi and more than 1,000 funerary statues near the city of Luxor.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But, both commercial and small-scale beekeepers lost 33 percent of their honey bee colonies between April 2016 and April 2017.

(Study Finds Mixed News About Bee Populations, VOA)

Following the April 25 earthquake in Nepal, two prototype FINDER devices were deployed to support search and rescue teams in the stricken areas.

(DHS and NASA Technology Helps Save Four in Nepal Earthquake Disaster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The spacecraft's fateful dive is the final beat in the mission's Grand Finale, 22 weekly dives, which began in late April, through the gap between Saturn and its rings.

(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)

The color images for this observation, obtained in April 2015, are the first to show large northern areas of Tethys under the illumination and viewing conditions necessary to see the arcs clearly.

(Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

McDonough’s study appeared in the April 2017 issue of the American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism.

(Study: Fruits and Vegetables Can Lower Blood Pressure, VOA)