SEPT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sept mean? 

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

1. the month following August and preceding October

2. people descended from a common ancestor

  Familiarity information: SEPT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEPT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following August and preceding October

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Sep; Sept; September

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

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "Sept"):

Michaelmas; Michaelmas Day; September 29 (honoring the archangel Michael; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland)

Labor Day (first Monday in September in the United States and Canada)

Citizenship Day; September 17 (celebrated in the United States)

American Indian Day (US: the 4th Friday in September)

mid-September (the middle part of September)

autumnal equinox; fall equinox; September equinox (September 22)

9-11; 9/11; Sep 11; Sept. 11; September 11 (the day in 2001 when Arab suicide bombers hijacked United States airliners and used them as bombs)

Holonyms ("Sept" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

People descended from a common ancestor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept

Context example:

his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower

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

ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock (the descendants of one individual)

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

people (members of a family line)

homefolk (the people of your home locality (especially your own family))

house (aristocratic family line)

dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)

gens; name (family based on male descent)

 Context examples 

The mission's final calculations predict loss of contact with the Cassini spacecraft will take place on Sept. 15 at 7:55 a.m. EDT (4:55 a.m. PDT).

(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)

A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft shortly before its controlled impact into the comet's surface on Sept. 30, 2016.

(Final Descent Image from Rosetta Spacecraft, NASA)

Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on Sept. 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles, (7.0 million kilometers, or about 18 Earth-Moon distances).

(Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1, NASA)

On Sept. 15, the mission's planned conclusion will be a final dive into Saturn's atmosphere.

(Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA)

The sun emitted two significant solar flares on the morning of Sept. 6, 2017.

(Two Significant Solar Flares Imaged by NASA's SDO, NASA)

Juno's next close flyby of Jupiter will occur on Sept. 1.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

A small asteroid, designated 2014 RC, will safely pass very close to Earth on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014.

(Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday, NASA)

On Sept. 2, the small body crossed under the ecliptic plane just inside of Mercury's orbit and then made its closest approach to the Sun on Sept. 9.

(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)

In this location, the rover began its latest drilling campaign (on Sept. 9).

(Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations, NASA)

On Sept. 19, ‘Oumuamua sped past the Sun at about 196,000 mph (315,400 km/h), fast enough to escape the Sun’s gravitational pull and break free of the solar system, never to return.

(New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Can Teach Us, NASA)