MONTHLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monthly mean? 

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

1. a periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year)

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

• MONTHLY (adjective)
  The adjective MONTHLY has 1 sense:

1. of or occurring or payable every month

  Familiarity information: MONTHLY used as an adjective is very rare.

• MONTHLY (adverb)
  The adverb MONTHLY has 1 sense:

1. occurring once a month

  Familiarity information: MONTHLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONTHLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

serial; serial publication; series (a periodical that appears at scheduled times)

• MONTHLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or occurring or payable every month

Context example:

the monthly newsletter

Similar:

periodic; periodical (happening or recurring at regular intervals)

Derivation:

month (a time unit of approximately 30 days)

month (one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year)

• MONTHLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring once a month

Context example:

they meet monthly

Pertainym:

monthly (of or occurring or payable every month)

 Context examples 

Most people also have to pay an additional monthly cost.

(Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)

NCIt is updated monthly to support precise coding of data based on the most recent developments in the cancer and biomedical research community.

(NCI Thesaurus, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientists were surprised to find that, whatever the level of salt consumed, sodium was stored and released from the men’s bodies in roughly weekly and monthly patterns.

(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)

Till now she had done well, been prudent and exact, kept her little account books neatly, and showed them to him monthly without fear.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It is updated monthly to provide a comprehensive up-to-date resource of published cancer research results.

(CancerLit, NCI Thesaurus)

The demonstration unit is capable of producing 4 thousand cubic meters of biomethane per month and currently fuels 70 vehicles—a number that can rise up to a monthly 300.

(Biomethane rises as alternate source of energy in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

They received either current preventative treatments—the antifolate drugs sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) monthly or trimethoprim-sulfamethoxozole (TS) daily, or a new combination drug called dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) once daily for 3 consecutive days each month.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)

Good Heaven! Brighton, and a whole campful of soldiers, to us, who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The monthly cycle of hormonal changes from the beginning of one menstrual period to the beginning of the next.

(Menstrual cycle, NCI Dictionary)

"This is no place for me. No more literature in mine. Me for the counting-house and ledger, the monthly salary, and the little home with Ruth."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)