NOVEMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does November mean? 

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

1. the month following October and preceding December

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOVEMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following October and preceding December

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Nov; November

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

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "November"):

November 5 (anniversary of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot)

11 November; Martinmas; St Martin's Day (the feast of Saint Martin; a quarter day in Scotland)

All Saints' Day; Allhallows; Hallowmas; Hallowmass; November 1 (a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835)

All Souls' Day; November 2 (a day of supplication for all the souls in purgatory)

Armistice Day; November 11; Veterans' Day; Veterans Day (a legal holiday in the United States; formerly Armistice Day but called Veterans' Day since 1954)

Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag)

mid-November (the middle part of November)

Holonyms ("November" 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 

November, December, and half of January passed away.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The new moon of November 26 in Sagittarius four degrees will be an even bigger, more major moment in your timeline for career.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We have seen nothing of him since November.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

About June the waters begin to fall, and are at their lowest at October or November.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a wild, tempestuous night, towards the close of November.

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

"If something very pleasant should happen now, we should think it a delightful month," said Beth, who took a hopeful view of everything, even November.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Her year! cried Mrs. Price; I am sure I hope I shall be rid of her before she has staid a year, for that will not be up till November.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Perry says that colds have been very general, but not so heavy as he has very often known them in November.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The next of each type visible from Mars will be Mercury in April 2015, Venus in August 2030 and Earth in November 2084.

(Mercury passes in front of the Sun, as seen from Mars, NASA)