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  1. noun A unit of time corresponding approximately to one cycle of the moon's phases, or about 30 days or 4 weeks.
  2. noun One of the 12 divisions of a year as determined by a calendar, especially the Gregorian calendar. Also called calendar month.
  3. noun A period extending from a date in one calendar month to the corresponding date in the following month.
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  • This meant she'd be losing her hair in a week, and the only opening I had for a month was the last spot at the Hot Mama shoot. —  JOURNAL
  • That high point at the start of the month (GM's announcement of a strategic review at Saab) is very high point, indeed, and the lows at the end of the month are about 60\% of normal traffic here, which is OK given the holiday period we're in. —  Saab Cars - Trollhattan Saab
  • The only thing making this stand out from any other horror this month is the big name studio —  FREEwilliamsburg
  • : The Rangers had a winning record in July -- even though their ERA for the month was a picturesque 6.63. —  MLB.com Fantasy 411
  • Kicking off the month is an audio adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Speckled Band," —  Newswire Today - Free Newswire - Press Releases Distribution
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  1. Middle English moneth, from Old English mōnath; see mē-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English moneth; from Middle English month, moneth, from Anglo-Saxon mōnath, mōnoth (in inflection syncopated mōnth-) = OFries. mōnath, mōnad, mōnd = Dutch maand = Middle Low German manet, Low German maand = Old High German mānōd, Middle High German mānōt, mānet, German monat = Icelandic mānudhr = Swedish månad = Danish maaned = Gothic (Moesogothic) mēnōths, a month; cf. Gaelic mios, Irish mios, Old Irish mī (genitive mīs) = Welsh mis = Old Bulgarian miesetsĭ = Servian mjesec = Bohemian mesic = Polish miesiac = Russian miesyatŭ = Lithuanian menesis = Lett, mēnes = Latin mensis = Greek μήν (for *μηνς), month, = Sanskrit mās (for *māns, *mēns), month: names derived from or connected with the name for ‘moon,’ Anglo-Saxon mōna = Goth, mēna = Greek μήνη, etc.; but the phonetic relations are not entirely clear: see moon.
 

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