SEPTEMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does September mean? 

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

1. the month following August and preceding October

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEPTEMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following August and preceding October

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Sep; Sept; September

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

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "September"):

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 ("September" 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 

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will launch September 2016 and travel to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu to harvest a sample of surface material and return it to Earth for study.

(NASA to Map the Surface of an Asteroid, NASA)

Established by the Director, NCI, September 29, 1995.

(NCI Special Emphasis Panel, NCI Thesaurus)

He did every thing best in the world; and she was sure he would kill more birds on the first of September, than any body else in the country.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Public release of Mirai source code was announced at Hackforums on September 30.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)

Here am I, who shall be twenty in September, and yet I never had a proposal till to-day, not a real proposal, and to-day I have had three.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He would be at home in September, and where would be the harm of only waiting till September?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He has been wanting to come to us, continued Mr. Weston, ever since September: every letter has been full of it; but he cannot command his own time.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She was as handsome a girl last September, as I ever saw; and as likely to attract the man.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This is something you’ve not experienced since August 2015 to September 2016.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The ship slackened her sails, and I came up with her between five and six in the evening, September 26th; but my heart leaped within me to see her English colours.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)