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january
The Collaborative International Dictionary
January \Jan"u*a*ry\, n. [L. Januarius, fr. Janus an old Latin deity, the god of the sun and the year, to whom the month of January was sacred; cf. janua a door, Skr. y[=a] to go.] The first month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
Note: Before the adoption of New Style, the commencement of the year was usually reckoned from March 25.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., Ieneuer, from Old North French Genever, Old French Jenvier (Modern French Janvier), attested from early 12c. in Anglo-French, from Latin Ianuarius (mensis) "(the month) of Janus," to whom the month was sacred as the beginning of the year (see Janus; cognates: Italian Gennajo, Provençal Genovier, Portuguese Janeiro). The form was gradually Latinized by c.1400. Replaced Old English geola se æfterra "Later Yule." In Chaucer, a type-name for an old man.
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer). In the Southern hemisphere, January is the seasonal equivalent of July in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
January as a surname may refer to:
- Briann January (born January 11, 1987), American professional basketball player
- Don January (born November 20, 1929), American professional golfer
- Glenn January (born May 25, 1983), professional Canadian football offensive tackle
- Lois January (October 5, 1913 – August 7, 2006), American actress
- Peter January (born 13 January 1952), British diplomat
- One of three brothers who were American amateur soccer players, who participated in the 1904 Summer Olympics:
:* Charles January (February 1, 1888 – April 26, 1970)
:* John January (March 6, 1882 – December 1, 1917)
:* Thomas January (January 8, 1886 – January 25, 1957)
"January" is a pop rock song recorded by the Scottish rock band Pilot. Written by David Paton and produced by Alan Parsons, "January" was the sole number one single in the UK for Pilot, ironically going to the top of the charts on 1 February 1975. It stayed at number one for three weeks. In a video interview on Radio Borders, David Paton explained that the song was not about the month, but about a girl named January. The verse is unrelated to the chorus and talks about the success of Magic and how it had opened up the world for him. It also charted in the United States, making a minor impression on the Billboard Hot 100, in early 1976. It also went to number one in Australia where it stayed up top for eight weeks.
During the month of January 2016, the song was a feature of adverts for ASDA stores within the UK.
January is the first month in the Gregorian calendar.
January may also refer to:
- January (surname), the surname of several people
January is the first book in the Countdown series by Daniel Parker (b. 1970). It was first published on December 1, 1998.
January is an album by Polish jazz pianist and composer Marcin Wasilewski recorded in 2007 and released on the ECM label.
January ( is an allegorical play by Yordan Radichkov written in 1974.
The play is distinguished by its wealth of characters and intertwined elements of the folklore of Northwestern Bulgaria with biblical allusions. It highlights the major conflict clash between the past and modernity in an aging village and those in it when innovation enters and opposition ensues over communication versus isolation.
The work was translated into English by Judith Sprostranov and is included in the collection Contemporary Bulgarian Plays, issued by Tantalus Books in 2002.
Usage examples of "january".
WITH JOSEPH BASS AT HIS SIDE, Adams crossed Long Bridge over the frozen Charles River and rode into Cambridge in the early afternoon of January 24, 1776, in time to dine with General Washington at the temporary quarters of Colonel Thomas Mifflin near Harvard Yard.
By early January, 1787, Adams had rushed the first installment of his effort to a London printer.
Not long after, however, Adams did receive a letter from Abigail, written at Quincy on January 15, 1797: The cold has been more severe than I can ever before recollect.
When in the predawn hours of January 27, a terrible fire ripped through the home and shop of the Philadelphia printer and publisher of the Federal Gazette, Andrew Brown, taking the lives of his wife and children, Adams was conspicuous among the men handing up buckets to fight the blaze.
At Ghent the same month, the American commissioners led by John Quincy Adams signed a peace treaty with Britain, news that would not reach the United States until February, by which time Americans under General Andrew Jackson had won a decisive victory, on January 15, at the battle of New Orleans.
The last course that I heard from Agassiz in Cambridge began on October 23, 1867, and closed on January 11, 1868.
A parallel team of FBI agents from the New York JTTF had been tracking these cell members prior to the Harrisburg sessions, but in January of 1993, just weeks before the Trade Center blast - reportedly out of a concern that this second probe was sapping FBI manpower - Carson Dunbar shut it down as well.
Emergency Court of Appeals organized by the Emergency Price Control Act of January 30, 1942.
Alfred William Henry Curtis Moreland would be at home after January the first in the Rectory, Appleblossom Court, Parklane Road, Tilbury-onthe-Stoke.
The ideal time for establishment of their beachhead in Auca territory would be early January during the full of the moon.
Cohen had received little support from his embassy or his superiors in Tel Aviv, but early on Sunday, January 4, the station wagon with Saul, Natalie, and two American-born Israeli agents passed over the Peace Bridge from Niagara Falls, New York, to Niagara Falls, Canada.
He was, he says, on his way to Ayrshire, one stormy day in January, and had made himself comfortable, in spite of the snow-drift, over a smoking bowl, at an inn at the Sanquhar, when in wheeled the whole funeral pageantry of Mrs.
Lord Middlethorpe, who had just consulted his pocket watch, it was precisely six minutes after eleven in the evening, and Susannah Ballister knew quite well that the day was Thursday and the date was January the twenty-seventh, the year eighteen hundred and fourteen.
Thursday, 27 January 1814, Susannah Ballister made three wishes, none of which came true.
Wavell had arrived in Batavia on January 10, and established his headquarters near Bandoeng, the centre of the Dutch Army Command.