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Month Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Month?
[n] a time unit of 30 days; "he was given a month to pay the bill"
[n] one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year; "he paid the bill last month" Synonyms | Synonyms for Month: calendar month Related Terms | Find terms related to Month: abundant year | academic year | annum | bissextile year | calendar month | calendar year | century | common year | day | decade | decennary | decennium | defective year | fiscal year | fortnight | hour | leap year | lunar month | lunar year | lunation | luster | lustrum | man-hour | microsecond | millennium | millisecond | minute | moment | moon | quarter | quinquennium | regular year | second | semester | session | sidereal year | solar year | sun | term | trimester | twelvemonth | week | weekday | year See Also | anomalistic month | calendar week | full moon | full phase of the moon | full-of-the-moon | Gregorian calendar month | half-moon | Hindu calendar month | Islamic calendar month | Jewish calendar month | lunar month | lunation | moon | new moon | new phase of the moon | period | period of time | Revolutionary calendar month | sidereal month | solar month | synodic month | time period | time unit | unit of time | week | year Month In Webster's Dictionary \Month\, n. [OE. month, moneth, AS. m[=o]n?, m[=o]na?;
akin to m[=o]na moon, and to D. maand month, G. monat, OHG.
m[=a]n[=o]d, Icel. m[=a]nu?r, m[=a]na?r, Goth. m[=e]n[=o]?s.
[root]272. See {Moon}.]
One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided;
the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the
length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the
name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called
a month.
Note: In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or
twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed.
--Blackstone. In the United States the rule of the
common law is generally changed, and a month is
declared to mean a calendar month. --Cooley's
Blackstone.
{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.
{Calendar months}, 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.
{Lunar 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.
{Solar month}, 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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