JULY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does July mean? 

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

1. the month following June and preceding August

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JULY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following June and preceding August

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "July"):

Fourth of July; Independence Day; July 4 (a legal holiday in the United States)

Dominion Day; July 1 (a legal holiday in Canada commemorating receiving Dominion status in 1867)

14 July; Bastille Day (a legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789)

mid-July (the middle part of July)

Holonyms ("July" 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 

Analysis was performed on the Kepler space telescope's July 2015 planet candidate catalog, which identified 4,302 potential planets.

(Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered, NASA)

Saturn will leave during those months (March 21 to July 1), but Jupiter, giver of gifts and luck, will remain in your fourth house of home until December 19, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its long anticipated arrival at Jupiter on July 4.

(Juno Peers Inside a Giant, NASA)

The July which immediately succeeded my marriage was made memorable by three cases of interest, in which I had the privilege of being associated with Sherlock Holmes and of studying his methods.

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

As an earnest of our pleasure in publishing the poem, let me tell you that we have set it for the August number, our July number being already made up.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Beginning in July 2015, bright clouds were again seen on Neptune.

(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)

During the first week of July, my friend had been absent so often and so long from our lodgings that I knew he had something on hand.

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

The Cassini spacecraft obtained the new views in late July, as it receded from Titan after a close flyby.

(Cassini tracks clouds developing over a Titan sea, NASA)

It was yet night, but July nights are short: soon after midnight, dawn comes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Enter Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since July 4, 2016.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)