Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar. See Table at calendar.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The fourth month of the year, containing thirty days. With poets, April is the type of inconstancy, from the changeableness of its weather.
Wiktionary
- n. The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, following March and preceding May. Abbreviation: Apr or Apr.
- n. A female given name for somebody born in April; used since early 20th century.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The fourth month of the year.
- n. Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the month following March and preceding May
Etymologies
- From Middle English apprile, re-Latinized from aueril, from Old French avrill, from Latin aprīlis ("of the month of the goddess Venus"), perhaps based on Etruscan Apru, from Ancient Greek Αφροδίτη (Afrodíte, "Venus"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Latin aprīlis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Semana Santa (April ~April 3 - 12, Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday), which is Mexico's second largest holiday.”
“•April Fool's Day, April 1, 2009 is 04 / 01 / 2009, or 4012009, which has”
“April, without entering the cottage, hangs over the hungry nestlings watching them.] _April.”
“April comes along singing, and stands outside and out of sight to finish her song.] _April.”
“IV. iii.41 (352,6) To the April day again] That is, _to the wedding day_, called by the poet, satirically, _April day_, or _fool's day_.”
“The open streams API launched in April is a significant example.”
“Consumer prices rose 2.8 percent in April from a year earlier, the fastest pace in 18 months, and property prices jumped 12.8 percent, the statistics bureau said in statements today.”
“The cancellation of an invitation to speak to a legitimate campus group at Wyoming in April is a case in point.”
“Looking at the success rate of Senate predictions made in April is a sobering experience.”
“Marino, who has been detained as a danger to the community since his arrest in April, is still viewed by the feds as one of three family capos who serve on a ruling panel that now runs the beleaguered crime family - a factor that obviously has some bearing on the government's hard-nosed tactics.”
The Huffington Post: Jerry Capeci: Feds Plea Offer in Mob Sex Case Seems Rather Unseemly
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