JANUARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does January mean? 

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

1. the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JANUARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Jan; January

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

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "January"):

Inauguration Day; January 20 (the day designated for inauguration of the United States President)

January 1; New Year's; New Year's Day (the first day of the year)

Martin Luther King Day; Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday (observed on the Monday closest to January 15)

Tet (the New Year in Vietnam; observed for three days after the first full moon after January 20th)

January 20; Saint Agnes's Eve (a Christian holy day)

January 1; Solemnity of Mary ((Roman Catholic Church) a holy day of obligation)

Epiphany; Epiphany of Our Lord; January 6; Three Kings' Day; Twelfth day (twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus)

Twelfth night (eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5)

Christmas; Christmastide; Christmastime; Noel; Yule; Yuletide (period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6)

mid-January (the middle part of January)

Holonyms ("January" 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 

The plan going forward is to switch to the TCM thrusters in January.

(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)

You had two eclipses recently: December 25 and January 10, and those might have brought things to light and into focus.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"Come on,—I'll show you the real dirt," Brissenden said to him, one evening in January.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They were married in January of last year.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The researchers evaluated 43 children with these tumors from January 2006 to May 2014.

(Rare cancers may masquerade as ADHD in children, NIH)

In Uruguay, smoke arrived 6 January, as was the case in southern Brazil.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

The year-to-date (January–March) globally averaged temperature was also record high.

(March 2015 and first quarter of year warmest on record, NOAA)

At the time of its closest approach on January 26, the asteroid will be approximately 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from Earth.

(Asteroid to Fly By Earth on January 26, NASA)

I shall see her in January.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

In Norway, PGR has increased from 0.88% in 2006-2007 to 1.2% in 2007-2008 and continued to grow in 2008-2009, reaching 1.31% on January 1, 2009.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)