calendar
A calendar is the order that divides a year into days, weeks and months.
(noun)An example of a calendar is the Mayan calendar.
A calendar is defined as a printed or electronic version of a standard division of a year into months, weeks, and days.
(noun)An example of a calendar is a 12-month 2012 calendar with cats on it.
The definition of calendar is any person or thing that is on a printed schedule of the year.
(adjective)An example of calendar used as an adjective is a calendar girl.
To calendar means to schedule things.
(verb)An example of to calendar is to meet with coworkers to schedule a project’s major deadlines.
See calendar in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a system of determining the beginning, length, and divisions of a year and for arranging the year into days, weeks, and months
- a table, chart, register, etc. that shows such an arrangement, usually for a single year
- a list or schedule, as of pending court cases, bills coming before a legislature, planned social events, etc.
Origin: ME calender < L kalendarium, account book < kalendae, calends
adjective
transitive verb
Related Forms:
- calendrical adjective or calendric
See calendar in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- Any of various systems of reckoning time in which the beginning, length, and divisions of a year are defined.
- A table showing the months, weeks, and days in at least one specific year.
- A schedule of events.
- An ordered list of matters to be considered: a calendar of court cases; the bills on a legislative calendar.
- Chiefly British A catalog of a university.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English calender
Origin: , from Old French calendier
Origin: , from Late Latin kalendārium
Origin: , from Latin, account book
Origin: , from kalendae, calends (from the fact that monthly interest was due on the calends); see kelə-2 in Indo-European roots
.Three Principal Calendars
The Gregorian calendar is now in use as the civil calendar throughout most of the world. The Jewish calendar is the official calendar of the Jewish religious community. The Islamic calendar is the official calendar in many Muslim countries. Each calendar listed below begins with the first month of the year and includes the number of days each month contains. Many months have a variable number of days, as described below.
| GREGORIAN | JEWISH | ISLAMIC | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Months | Number of Days | Months | Number of Days | Months | Number of Days | |
| January | 31 | Tishri | (Sep-Oct) | 30 | Muharram | 29 or 30 |
| February | 28 or 29 | Heshvan | (Oct-Nov) | 29 or 30 | Safar | 29 or 30 |
| March | 31 | Kislev | (Nov-Dec) | 29 or 30 | Rabi I | 29 or 30 |
| April | 30 | Tevet | (Dec-Jan) | 30 | Rabi II | 29 or 30 |
| May | 31 | Shevat | (Jan-Feb) | 30 | Jumada I | 29 or 30 |
| June | 30 | Adar | (Feb-Mar) | 29 or 30 | Jumada II | 29 or 30 |
| July | 31 | Adar Sheni | (leap year only) | 29 | Rajab | 29 or 30 |
| August | 31 | Nisan | (Mar-Apr) | 30 | Shaעban | 29 or 30 |
| September | 30 | Iyar | (Apr-May) | 29 | Ramadan | 29 or 30 |
| October | 31 | Sivan | (May-Jun) | 30 | Shawwal | 29 or 30 |
| November | 30 | Tammuz | (Jun-Jul) | 29 | Dhuאl-Qaעdah | 29 or 30 |
| December | 31 | Av | (Jul-Aug) | 30 | Dhuאl-Hijjah | 29 or 30 |
| Elul | (Aug-Sep) | 29 | ||||
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See calendar in Ologies
Calendar
a flgure-of-eight-shaped scale, for showing the declination of the sun and the equation of time for every day of the year. —analemmatic, adj.
bissextus
the twenty-ninth day of February, added to the calendar every four years, except in centenary years evenly divisible by 400, to compensate for the discrepancy between the arbitrary 365-day calendar year and the actual time of the solar year. —bissextile, adj.
calendographer
Rare. a person who makes calendars.
1. an intercalation of a day or days in the calendar to correct error.
2. the day or days intercalated. —embolic, embolismic, embolismical, adj.
heortology
the study of the origin, growth, meaning, and history of Christian religious feasts. —heortological, adj.
in the Roman Empire, the cyclical, fifteen-year fiscal period, used for dating ordinary events. Also called cycle of indiction. —indictional. adj.
inserted into the calendar, as the twenty-ninth day of February in a leap year. —intercalation, n. —intercalative, adj.
the period of the moon’s synodic revolution, from the time of the new moon to the next new moon; one lunar month or approximately 29 1/2 days.
a period of five years.
1. a list or calendar of months.
2. Eastern Orthodoxy. a calendar of all festivals for martyrs and saints, with brief accounts of their lives. Also Menologion.
2. a church calendar, listing festivals for saints.
metemptosis
the practice of eliminating the bissextile day every 134 years to adjust the date of the new moon. Cf. proemptosis.
neomenia
1. the time of the new moon or the beginning of the month.
2. a heathen festival at the time of the new moon.
proemptosis
the adding of a day every 300 and again every 2400 years to adjust the date of the new moon. Cf. metemptosis.
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