MICHAELMAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Michaelmas mean? 

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

1. honoring the archangel Michael; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICHAELMAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Honoring the archangel Michael; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Michaelmas; Michaelmas Day; September 29

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

quarter day (a Christian holy day; one of four specified days when certain payments are due)

Holonyms ("Michaelmas" is a part of...):

Sep; Sept; September (the month following August and preceding October)

 Context examples 

That Mr. Elton should really be in love with me,—me, of all people, who did not know him, to speak to him, at Michaelmas!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Michaelmas came; and now Anne's heart must be in Kellynch again.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And I assure you I am quite sorry that they are going home on Tuesday, which is the day before the first day of Michaelmas Term.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her own happiness, and her own spirits, were at least very certain; and she joined Mrs. Jennings most heartily in her expectation of their being all comfortably together in Delaford Parsonage before Michaelmas.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

People did say you meant to quit the place entirely at Michaelmas; but, however, I hope it is not true.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Are the passes open to us, or does your master go back from his word pledged to me at Libourne no later than last Michaelmas?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I thought we should never have got through them, though we had the four horses of course; and poor old coachman would attend us, out of his great love and kindness, though he was hardly able to sit the box on account of the rheumatism which I had been doctoring him for ever since Michaelmas.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Take my word for it, that, if I am alive, I shall be paying a visit at Delaford Parsonage before Michaelmas; and I am sure I shan't go if Lucy an't there.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In general she has been in very good health and very good looks since Michaelmas.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)