month : Idioms & Phrases

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A month mind

  • . (a) A strong or abnormal desire . Obs. Shak. (b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a month after death. Strype.
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Anomalistic month

  • noun period between successive perigees; approximately 27.5546 days
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  • . See under Month.
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Calendar month

  • noun one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year
    calendar month; month.
    • he paid the bill last month
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  • . See under Month.
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Calendar months

  • noun one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year
    calendar month; month.
    • he paid the bill last month
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  • the months as adjusted in the common or Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November, containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February, which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29.
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day of the month

  • noun the specified day of the month
    date.
    • what is the date today?
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fence month

Fence month
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  1. (Forest Law), the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. Bullokar. -- Fence roof, a covering for defense. "They fitted their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland.
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gregorian calendar month

  • noun a month in the Gregorian calendar
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hindu calendar month

  • noun any lunisolar month in the Hindu calendar
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Honey month

  • . Same as Honeymoon.
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islamic calendar month

  • noun any lunar month in the Muslim calendar
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jewish calendar month

  • noun a month in the Jewish calendar
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Lunar month

  • noun the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)
    lunation; lunar month; moon.
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  • . See Month.
  • the period of one revolution of the moon, particularly a synodical revolution; but several kinds are distinguished, as the synodical month, or period from one new moon to the next, in mean length 29 d. 12 h. 44 m. 2.87 s.; the nodical month, or time of revolution from one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36 s.; the sidereal, or time of revolution from a star to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the anomalistic, or time of revolution from perigee to perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and the tropical, or time of passing from any point of the ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7 s.
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month by month

  • adverb for an indefinite number of months
    • month by month, the betrayal gnawed at his heart
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month of sundays

  • noun a time perceived as long
    • I hadn't seen him in a month of Sundays
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Moon month

  • a lunar month.
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Nodical month

  • . See Lunar month, under Month.
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revolutionary calendar month

  • noun a month in the Revolutionary calendar
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Sidereal clock, day, month, year

  • . See under Clock, Day, etc.
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sidereal month

  • noun period between successive conjunctions with a star, 27.322 days
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Solar month

  • noun one-twelfth of a solar or tropical year
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  • the time in which the sun passes through one sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1 s.
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synodic month

  • noun the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)
    lunation; lunar month; moon.
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Tropic month

  • . See Lunar month, under Month.
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