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  1. noun Any of various systems of reckoning time in which the beginning, length, and divisions of a year are defined.
  2. noun A table showing the months, weeks, and days in at least one specific year.
  3. noun A schedule of events.
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  • "Today, it looks like the calendar is the primary feature of the site," Goronkin said. —  timesunion.com: Local Breaking News
  • Add in the district's failure to implement its vision for the calendar and parental disinterest and the calendar was a pretty big flop. selliott | Saturday, February 14, 2009, 07: 37 PM —  daytondailynews.com - News
  • Four of the games that I always circle on my calendar are the ones against the Hawks. —  WordPress.com News
  • "We really believe the calendar will be a great success."
  • But when questioned about her new duty, striking a vintage pin-up pose on the cover of the controversial calendar, Roberts believes it's about having fun and the calendar is a way to poke fun at the labels the LDS community gets.
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  1. Middle English calender, from Old French calendier, from Late Latin kalendārium, from Latin, account book, from kalendae, calends (from the fact that monthly interest was due on the calends); see kelə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also calender; from Middle English calendar, calender, kalender = D. G. Danish Swedish kalender = French calendrier = Provencal calendier = Spanish Portuguese Italian calendario, Italian also calendaro, from Latin calendarium, in classical L. usually kalendarium, an account-book, interest-book (so called because interest became due on the calends), in Middle Latin a calendar; neuter of calendarius, kalendarius, adjective, from calendæ, kalendæ, calends: see calends.
  2. from calendar, n.
  3. from French calandre, from Middle Latin celendra, a calender, a corruption of Latin cylindrus, a roller, cylinder: see cylinder.
 

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