January Definition

jănyo͝o-ĕrē
januaries
noun
The first month of the year, having 31 days.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • jan
  • inventory time
  • post-holiday season
  • first month of the year
  • time of sales
  • the new year
  • new-year-s
pronoun

The first month of the Gregorian calendar, following the December of the previous year and preceding February. Abbreviation: Jan or Jan.

01/01/09 : Thursday, January 1st, 2009.
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December 31

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Other Word Forms of January

Noun

Singular:
January
Plural:
januaries, januarys

Origin of January

  • Re-Latinized from Middle English Ieneuer, from Anglo-Norman genever, from Latin iānuārius (“(month) of Janus”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European base *ei-, "to go".

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English Januarie, Jenever from Old North French Jenever from Latin Iānuārius (mēnsis) (month) of Janus from Iānus Janus ei- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

January Sentence Examples

  • Every year, the full moon in January is the Wolf Moon and there is a three day festival that all werewolves attend… kind of our high holiday.

  • He died on the 20th of January of the same year.

  • The death of the emperor Maximilian on the 12th of January 1519 had seriously affected the situation.

  • It was not till the 19th of January 1826 that he recorded in the private memoranda begun by him in 1820 his decision "to embrace the gift of the Spanish subject."

  • I have a mare; and we have a five-year-old mare with a colt, a four year-old filly, and a two-year-old filly... oh, and my mare is going to foal again in January.

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