FEBRUARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does February mean? 

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

1. the month following January and preceding March

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEBRUARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following January and preceding March

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Feb; February

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

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "February"):

bissextile day; February 29; leap day (the name of the day that is added during a leap year)

Candlemas; Candlemas Day; Feb 2 (feast day commemorating the presentation of Christ in the temple; a quarter day in Scotland)

February 2; Groundhog Day (if the ground hog emerges and sees his shadow on this day, there will be 6 more weeks of winter)

February 12; Lincoln's Birthday (the day on which President Abraham Lincoln is remembered)

February 14; Saint Valentine's Day; St Valentine's Day; Valentine's Day; Valentine Day (a day for the exchange of tokens of affection)

February 22; Washington's Birthday (the day on which George Washington is remembered)

Presidents' Day (the third Monday in February; commemorates both presidents Lincoln and Washington)

mid-February (the middle part of February)

Holonyms ("February" 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 

You worked very hard last month, and that pace will continue during the first two weeks of this month, until February 16.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It is February, and we have travelled fifteen hundred miles.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

To help fill the research gap, scientists conducted the Age of Blood in Children in Pediatric Intensive Care Units (ABC-PICU) randomized trial at 50 medical centers between February 2014 and November 2018.

(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)

Chandra first observed GK Persei in February 2000 and then again in November 2013.

("Mini Supernova" Explosion Could Have Big Impact, NASA)

There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter planned during Juno's mission (scheduled to end in February 2018).

(Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby, NASA)

Early in February, within a fortnight from the receipt of Willoughby's letter, Elinor had the painful office of informing her sister that he was married.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In the summer it might have passed; but what can any body's native air do for them in the months of January, February, and March?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The Lost 52 Project identifies February 26, 1944 as the day it sank.

(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)

We had arrived in England at the beginning of October, and it was now February.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The animals were found in a wooded area in Espírito Santo state, late in February this year.

(Brazil scientists find mutations in yellow fever virus, Agência Brasil)