monthly

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-- Is this the day for your monthly wash, Kinch?

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  1. adjective Occurring, appearing, or coming due every month: a monthly meeting; monthly rent payments.
  2. adjective Continuing or lasting for a month.
  3. adverb Once a month; every month.

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  • I am heartily in favor of a semi-monthly, and will support it with enthusiasm. —  Astounding Stories January, 1935
  • Here's my vote for a semi-monthly, and a quarterly. —  Astounding Stories January, 1935
  • I mean like for example, is based on a weekly traffic, monthly, bi-monthly, tri -, half a year, annual? —  Digital Point Forums
  • If communal penance services are the preferred way to offer the sacrament, then they ought to be held monthly -- both during school hours and at times convenient to parents and adults. —  Ten Reasons
  • The online version of "the bi-monthly, internationally distributed, glossy music magazine that gives well-deserved attention to musicians largely ignored by mainstream publications." —  Back to Rockville
 

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  1. Early modern English monethly; from Middle English monethly, from Anglo-Saxon mōnathlīc (= Old High German mānōtlīch, German monatlich = Middle Dutch maandelijk, D, maandelijksch = Swedish månatlig = Danish maanedlig), monthly, from mōnath, month: see month.
  2. = Dutch maandelijks = Middle Low German māntlike = German monatlich; from monthly, adjective
 

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