MONTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does month mean? 

• MONTH (noun)
  The noun MONTH has 2 senses:

1. one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year

2. a time unit of approximately 30 days

  Familiarity information: MONTH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the twelve divisions of the calendar year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

calendar month; month

Context example:

he paid the bill last month

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

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meronyms (parts of "month"):

calendar week; week (a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "month"):

date (the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred)

Revolutionary calendar month (a month in the Revolutionary calendar)

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Jewish calendar month (a month in the Jewish calendar)

Islamic calendar month (any lunar month in the Muslim calendar)

Hindu calendar month (any lunisolar month in the Hindu calendar)

Derivation:

monthly (of or occurring or payable every month)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A time unit of approximately 30 days

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

he was given a month to pay the bill

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

time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)

Meronyms (parts of "month"):

new moon; new phase of the moon (the time at which the Moon appears as a narrow waxing crescent)

half-moon (the time at which the Moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated)

full; full-of-the-moon; full moon; full phase of the moon (the time when the Moon is fully illuminated)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "month"):

lunar month; lunation; moon; synodic month (the period between successive new moons (29.531 days))

anomalistic month (period between successive perigees; approximately 27.5546 days)

sidereal month (period between successive conjunctions with a star, 27.322 days)

solar month (one-twelfth of a solar or tropical year)

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

year (the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun)

Derivation:

monthly (of or occurring or payable every month)

 Context examples 

That it is unfortunate, especially if you have any engagements falling due in the course of the next several months.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There is little travel on the big cut-off. Sometimes two or three months and nobody goes by.

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

I had been warned against you months ago.

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

I shall relinquish all my young people in another six months, and lead a quieter life.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The months came and went, and back and forth they twisted through the uncharted vastness, where no men were and yet where men had been if the Lost Cabin were true.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of August.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And then we asked Sarah up for a week, and the week grew into a month, and one thing led to another, until she was just one of ourselves.

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

After months of searching I discovered where he was.

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

In this brief hour I had learnt more of him than in the whole previous month: yet still he puzzled me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These men were willing to act as our personal servants, to cook, to row, or to make themselves useful in any way at a payment of fifteen dollars a month.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)