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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The seventh month of the year, consisting of thirty-one days, during which the sun enters the sign Leo.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The seventh month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

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  • proper noun The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August. Abbreviation: Jul or Jul.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the month following June and preceding August

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English Julie, from Old North French, from Latin Iūlius, after Iūlius, Caesar, Julius Caesar; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots.]

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Middle English iulius, from Anglo-Norman julie, from Old French jule, from Latin iūlius (Gaius Julius Caesar's month), perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios, "descended from Jove", from Latin Iuppiter, from Proto-Indo-European *dyeu-pəter-, vocative case of godfather, from Proto-Indo-European *deiw-os, god, + *pəter, father

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