JUNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does June mean? 

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

1. the month following May and preceding July

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following May and preceding July

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "June"):

Davis' Birthday; Jefferson Davis' Birthday; June 3 (celebrated in southern United States)

Flag Day; June 14 (commemorating the adoption of the United States flag in 1777)

Father's Day (US: third Sunday in June)

June 29; Saints Peter and Paul (first celebrated in the 3rd century)

mid-June (the middle part of June)

June 21; midsummer; summer solstice (June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point)

June 24; Midsummer's Day; Midsummer Day; St John's Day (a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland)

June 23; Midsummer Eve; Midsummer Night; St John's Eve; St John's Night (the night before Midsummer Day)

Holonyms ("June" 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 

When you referred in your ledger to the sale of those casts I observed that the date was June 3rd of last year.

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

Neptune will stay direct until June 23, 2020, so you have an open road to make a name for yourself.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

One system, V404 Cygni, had reached nearly peak brightness when scientists observed it in June 2015.

(NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery, NASA)

But in June and July, low atmospheric pressures and cloudy skies slowed down the melt.

(Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record, NASA)

One night—it was in June, ’89—there came a ring to my bell, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the clock.

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

It was a pleasant winter and a long one, for she did not leave Mrs. Kirke till June.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He calculated a minute, and then said:—The first should be June 12, the second June 19, and the third June 29.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A newfound asteroid will safely pass Earth on June 8 from a distance of about 777,000 miles (1.25 million kilometers), more than three times farther away than our moon.

(Asteroid discovered by NASA to pass Earth safely, NASA)

The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 3, 2016 using a spectral filter which preferentially admits wavelengths of ultraviolet light centered at 338 nanometers.

(Regarding Rhea, NASA)

They mounted their wheels on a late June afternoon and rode for the hills.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)