Month Definition
- calendar-month
- four weeks
- one-twelfth of a year
- thirty days
- measure of time
- period
- moon
- An indefinitely long period of time:
It will take you a month of Sundays to chop all that wood.
- every month or for many successive months
- each month
- every month
- a long time
Other Word Forms of Month
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Month
- month of Sundays
- month after month
- month by month
- month in, month out
- month of Sundays
Origin of Month
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From Middle English month, moneth, from Old English mōnað (“month"), from Proto-Germanic *mÄ“nōþs (“month"), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁nÌ¥s (“moon, month"), probably from Proto-Indo-European *mê- (“to measure"), referring to the moon's phases as the measure of time, equivalent to moon +"Ž -th. Cognate with Scots moneth (“month"); North Frisian muunt (“month"); Saterland Frisian Mound (“month"), Dutch maand (“month"); German Low German Maand, Monat (“month"); German Monat (“month"); Danish mÃ¥ned (“month"); Swedish mÃ¥nad (“month"); Icelandic mánuði (“month"); Latin mÄ“nsis (“month"); Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn); Armenian Õ¡Õ´Õ«Õ½ (amis); Old Irish mí; Old Church Slavonic мѣсѧць (mÄ›sÄ™cÄ). See also moon.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English moneth from Old English mōnath mē-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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