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- [muhnth]
- /mʌnθ/
- /mʌnθ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [muhnth]
- /mʌnθ/
Definitions of months word
- noun months Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided. 1
- noun months the time from any day of one calendar month to the corresponding day of the next. 1
- noun months a period of four weeks or 30 days. 1
- noun months Also called solar month. one-twelfth of a solar or tropical year. 1
- noun months Also called lunar month. the period of a complete revolution of the moon around the earth, as the period between successive new moons (synodic month) equal to 29.531 days, or the period between successive conjunctions with a star (sidereal month) equal to 27.322 days, or the period between successive perigees (anomalistic month) equal to 27.555 days, or the period between successive similar nodes (nodical month or draconic month) equal to 27.212 days. 1
- noun months an unusually long period of time of indefinite length: I haven't seen him for months. 1
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Origin of months
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English; Old English mōnath; cognate with Old High German mānōd, Old Norse mānathr. See moon
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Parts of speech for Months
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
months popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
months usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for months
noun months
- point — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
- generation — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- past — gone by or elapsed in time: It was a bad time, but it's all past now.
- second — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
Antonyms for months
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