January meaning

jăn'yo͝o-ĕr'ē
The first month of the year, having 31 days.
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The first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
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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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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".

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.

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

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

  • The poor kid didn't even have a real birthday, only the arbitrarily chosen date of January 1st.

  • " Winter " in-, 00 eludes October to arch at Sod, so Greenwich and Batavia; November to February at Kew ky and M Kew '110 Bureau Central; December 100, 100 November to January ' at Karasjok, and December and Janu ary at Perpignan.

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