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month
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
month
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a 20-minute/6-month/4-week etc delay
▪ A train had broken down, causing a two-hour delay.
a six month/five year etc period
▪ They studied the behaviour of the ocean during a five year period.
be four weeks/three months etc in arrears
▪ The rent money is two months in arrears.
calendar month
▪ Salaries will be paid at the end of the calendar month.
each day/week/month etc (=on each day, in each week etc)
▪ a disease that affects about 10 million people each year
every day/week/month etc (=at least once on each day, in each week etc)
▪ They see each other every day.
▪ Richard visits his mother every week.
give sb six months/three years etc (=in prison)
▪ The judge gave her two years in prison.
good for one month/a year etc
▪ Your passport is good for another three years.
hardly a day/week/month etc goes by without/when (=used to say that something happens almost every day, week etc)
▪ Hardly a month goes by without another factory closing down.
hardly a day/week/month etc goes by
▪ Hardly a week goes by without some food scare being reported in the media.
have two weeks/six months etc to live
▪ He knows he’s only got a few months to live.
in recent years/months/times etc
▪ The situation has improved in recent years.
inside the hour/month etc (=before an hour, month etc has passed)
▪ We’ll be back inside the hour.
jail sb for two months/six years/life etc
▪ They ought to jail her killer for life.
lunar month
preceding days/weeks/months/years
▪ income tax paid in preceding years
six months/a year etc in advance
▪ Book tickets 21 days in advance.
spend time/three months/six years etc in jail
▪ Griffiths spent three days in jail after pushing a policeman.
the early days/months/years of sth (=the period of time near the beginning of something)
▪ In the early years of our marriage, we lived with my wife’s parents.
the end of the day/week/month etc
▪ Karen’s returning to the States at the end of the month.
the ensuing days/months/years etc (=the days, months etc after an event)
▪ The situation deteriorated over the ensuing weeks.
the middle of the week/month/year etc
▪ Everything should be sorted out by the middle of next year.
the summer months
▪ The garden is open daily in the summer months.
the winter months
▪ During the winter months the town is often cut off.
the years/days/months etc ahead
▪ We do not foresee any major changes in the years ahead.
three years/two months etc back (=three years ago etc)
▪ His wife died a couple of years back.
▪ He called me a while back.
twelve weeks pregnant/two months pregnant etc
▪ The doctor said that she was eight weeks pregnant.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ These early months gave him a brutally clear idea of what lay ahead.
▪ This happened once in my early months at the Department of Health and Social Security.
▪ In the early months of 1944, Bomber Command losses hit an all-time high.
▪ The industrial scene thus looked much more alarming in the early months of 1 978.
▪ His engagements in the early months of 1942 were equally arduous.
▪ April Finish pruning early in the month.
following
▪ Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father's arm.
▪ But the following month saw a renewed wave of strikes paralyse St Petersburg, Moscow and many provincial cities.
▪ The following month 14 fans were injured when Feyenoord fans threw fragmentation bombs at Ajax supporters at a game in Amsterdam.
▪ During the following months we started to distribute basic medical material to dispensaries, health centres, and hospitals in a few districts.
▪ Over the following months, de Gaulle assumed total control over political affairs and substantially reduced Giraud's authority as Commander-in-Chief.
▪ In July 1982, he fell ill and the following month his fellow directors decided in his absence to sack him.
▪ The shares opened at a discount of 110p on the issue price of £3.50 but recovered strongly in the following months.
▪ The following months were very busy, and included extensive individual consultations with all members of staff.
last
▪ Some signs of his own frustration had emerged at a conference on the constitution last month.
▪ Less humorously, thousands of teachers, unpaid for six months or more, marched in Moscow last month.
▪ A police spokeswoman said the outbreak was not connected to racial violence in nearby Oldham last month.
▪ The special prosecutor last month asked the Supreme Court to turn aside the White House appeal over the attorneys' notes.
▪ At least that was the expectation as 8,000 people gathered in a vast, beautiful hall in London last month.
▪ When the world descended on Sydney last month it was with trepidation.
▪ A poll last month indicated that 70 percent of Arizonans favor a state law to halt cockfight gambling.
past
▪ In the past six months while they've been in prison doctors have been battling to save thir victim's eyes.
▪ For the past nine months it has been involved in a nightly Royal Mail operation out of the airport.
▪ Over the past 18 months we have launched a number of products offering opportunities for existing customers.
▪ The number of unsolicited companies approaching the office with offers of help in the past twelve months has been impressive.
▪ The government's calamities over the past 12 months have rocked the Tory faithful.
▪ If it is, it will bring the total of drug deaths in Strathclyde to more than 70 over the past 15 months.
▪ That policy has been manifestly successful over the past 12 months in reducing the rate of inflation to 3.7 percent.
previous
▪ Sales volumes fell 0.2% in June compared with the previous month.
▪ J., the previous month on drug charges, and that she had fingered Felix as her cocaine facilitator.
▪ That enabled it to boost pre-tax profits to March 31 to £101.4m from £65.7m in the previous 12 months.
▪ But he fell ill the previous month and had to cancel.
▪ Active smoking; active drinking Presently consuming or consumed in the previous 12 months.
▪ The pace of growth in new auto loans also lost momentum from the previous month.
▪ According to industry estimates, sales of nablabs last year were down by 25 percent overall on the previous 12 months.
▪ The previous month he had four, one as I told you lasting for hours.
recent
▪ In recent months he has made two major speeches in Parliament on the subject.
▪ Typically this column provides regular updates on earnings over the most recent 12 month period.
▪ His high profile in recent months and obvious bid for the party presidency have amounted to nothing.
▪ Furniture was smashed and fists flew in the most serious trouble at the Maze in recent months.
▪ About 40 stags are reported to have disappeared in recent months.
▪ In recent months, the industry has been whingeing and moaning.
▪ In recent months he accepted his increasing illness with an admirable fortitude and resignation.
▪ Their agony in recent months and years has been terrible to behold.
■ VERB
jail
▪ But when magistrates told her she'd be jailed for three months, she collapsed in the dock.
▪ But Judge Leo Clark told him: Walker was jailed for nine months and banned from the driving for two years.
▪ Osbourne, of Wallasey, who won £12,000, was jailed for six months by Liverpool Crown Court.
▪ Arthurs, 33, of Exeter, was jailed for nine months after admitting causing grievous bodily harm.
▪ The man, from Wrexham, was jailed for nine months after admitting cruelty.
▪ He was sacked from the Mint - and was jailed for nine months at Cardiff Crown Court yesterday.
▪ A driving examiner has been jailed for four months for indecently assaulting four women test candidates.
▪ He drew the sword and stabbed his attacker, Martin Day, who was later jailed for 18 months.
spend
▪ Just before the revolution he spent seven months in detention chained to a wall.
▪ She spends $ 100 a month in long-distance phone bills right now.
▪ The directors and actors had spent months in zoos recording the noises made by apes in emotional situations.
▪ Most of the money was spent within a month of the escape.
▪ Two people were killed, and Broderick spent one month in a Belfast hospital.
▪ Sarah, 19, had gone home for Christmas after spending three lonely months at Surrey University.
▪ I go out on a blitz and then tend to spend nothing for months.
▪ He had spent the past few months noting down all the sightings and rumours of the Bookman's movements.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I give it six weeks/a month etc
as little as £5/3 months/10 feet etc
be five/six/seven etc months gone
days turned into weeks/months turned into years etc
flavour of the month
▪ But Portillo is fast becoming flavour of the month and will increasingly find himself in the public eye.
▪ But the flavour of the month was no flavour at all.
▪ He is never one to go for gimmicks or flavour of the month hairdressing.
▪ I roll the flavour of the month round in my mouth.
▪ Nicholson and Hopper suddenly became the flavour of the month.
▪ Not the flavour of the month exactly, especially with your own people.
▪ Promotion is the new non flavour of the month.
months/weeks/ages yet
▪ But it could be several weeks yet before these children know the fate of their school.
▪ I know it will not be for some months yet, but time passes quickly.
▪ Indeed, it may beaver for many months yet.
▪ It was to last for some months yet.
▪ It will probably be some months yet before we get the final government reaction to our proposals.
▪ Sometimes they took little dancing steps, as their blood responded to rhythms that their descendants would not create for ages yet.
once a week/once every three months etc
take home £120 per week/$600 a month etc
ten days hence/five months hence etc
the day/week/month etc before
▪ And he also had long discussions with the actors when they rehearsed the dialogue during the week before shooting began.
▪ Barbara Walters found time the week before her swirl of Inaugural engagements as the date of Sen.
▪ Even the day before the King died!
▪ If she laid at dawn, like most birds, she would have to have prepared the day before.
▪ That is equivalent to the day before Thanksgiving, Black Wednesday, in industry parlance.
▪ The final winner will be announced the week before Super Bowl.
▪ The move came the day before high school players are allowed to sign letters-of-intent with college programs.
▪ The observers of gonorrhoea in the days before effective treatment was available vividly described the symptoms of acute gonococcal urethritis.
the following afternoon/month/page/chapter etc
▪ And she had returned the following afternoon, carrying Timmy on her hip and the rest of her possessions in a backpack.
▪ Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father's arm.
▪ Expansion and application of some of those ideas will be pursued in the following chapters.
▪ I describe experiments making use of this criterion in the following chapter.
▪ In the following chapters, I emphasize what can be done, not what will be done.
▪ The receiving company went into liquidation the following month.
▪ We examine these recurrent themes in the managers' first-year biographies in the following pages.
the intervening years/months/period etc
▪ But some underlying patterning remains, despite the intervening years and the subtle shifts in values and beliefs.
▪ I wanted to look young when I met my brother, perhaps because I had accomplished nothing in the intervening years.
▪ In the intervening years, as property taxes ate away at their nest egg, their proposals for other developments fell flat.
▪ Over the intervening years the inter-action and travelling of these eight aircraft is intricate.
▪ Recounting the matter in present time-without being returned-the patient is using all the intervening years as buffers against the painful emotion.
▪ Some time, then, during the intervening years, he had been granted a barony.
▪ The answer depends, to some degree, on the effectiveness of those who have been active in the intervening years.
▪ To occupy the intervening months she took a job in a hospital.
time of the month
▪ Even the time of the month can not be blamed for women's tendency to depression.
▪ She was worrying that they'd made love at the wrong time of the month.
▪ Surely not the time of the month?
▪ This is a safe time of the month for me.
two weeks/a month etc short of sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It snowed heavily during the month of January.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A month earlier it reported losing $ 250 million in 1995 and said it was cutting 100 jobs.
▪ At that time he had been a practising Catholic for two or three months.
▪ I told you all about it on July 12, two months ago.
▪ In this industry, none has been brought in the past six months.
▪ Last month, the appeal court had heard fresh evidence from two witnesses not called to give evidence at Smith's trial.
▪ My daughter's now 10 months old and I still haven't started my periods again.
▪ The actor can play a different person each month and still be considered a good actor.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
month

Sidereal \Si*de"re*al\, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a constellation, a star. Cf. Sideral, Consider, Desire.]

  1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.

  2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.

    Sidereal clock, day, month, year. See under Clock, Day, etc.

    Sideral time, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time, mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
month

Old English monað, from Proto-Germanic *menoth- (cognates: Old Saxon manoth, Old Frisian monath, Middle Dutch manet, Dutch maand, Old High German manod, German Monat, Old Norse manaðr, Gothic menoþs "month"), related to *menon- "moon" (see moon (n.); the month was calculated from lunar phases). Its cognates mean only "month" in the Romance languages, but in Germanic generally continue to do double duty. Phrase a month of Sundays "a very long time" is from 1832 (roughly 7 and a half months, but never used literally).

Wiktionary
month

n. A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon. In the Gregorian calendar there are twelve months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December.

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WordNet
month

  1. n. one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year; "he paid the bill last month" [syn: calendar month]

  2. a time unit of 30 days; "he was given a month to pay the bill"

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Wikipedia
Month

A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which is approximately as long as a natural period related to the motion of the Moon; month and Moon are cognates. The traditional concept arose with the cycle of moon phases; such months ( lunations) are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days. From excavated tally sticks, researchers have deduced that people counted days in relation to the Moon's phases as early as the Paleolithic age. Synodic months, based on the Moon's orbital period with respect to the Earth-Sun line, are still the basis of many calendars today, and are used to divide the year.

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Usage examples of "month".

Favorite Prescription for my daughter, and in looking over the directions of the accompanying circular and finding my own case so thoroughly described, I decided at once to give his special home treatment a trial, which I did during the three months that followed.

By planning openly and frequently, we will achieve more in a few months than we have been able to accomplish in decades.

In the first six months of the accord, some 140,000 German troops in Norway were exchanged and the German forces there greatly strengthened by supplies.

It was later that month, and the accountants were gathering for their annual client review.

Furious at the cancellation of a tour which had taken a great deal of arranging and represented the first time in eight months of the war that a foreign officer had been able to get accredited to a unit in the field, Stilwell offered every kind of excuse almost to the point of insubordination to avoid going to Lanchow.

May Sir George Grey proposed and carried a resolution which virtually rescinded that of Sir Eardley Wilmot, by declaring that, in the opinion of the house, it was not advisable to adopt any proceeding for the purpose of giving effect to the resolution of the 26th of that month.

I wrote to Therese, advising her to accept the engagement for Naples, where she might expect me to join her in the month of July, or after my return from Constantinople.

Russia and the psychological effect of it penetrated into the foreign federations affiliated with the Socialist party of America and gave the Anarcho-Syndicalists, who have joined us in great numbers in the last six months, a chance to split up the Socialist party of America into three groups.

On the 25th of the Eleventh Month, we were introduced into deep affliction by the sudden removal of our precious elder, E.

The bulk of the British army remained in the Punjaub for some months, various circumstances affording grounds for suspicion as to the good faith of the ranee and her durbar.

The Culture - the real Culture, the wily ones, not these semi-mystical Elenchers with their miserable hankering to be somebody else - had been known to give whole Affronter fleets the run-around for several months with not dissimilar enticements and subterfuges, keeping them occupied, seemingly on the track of some wildly promising prey which turned out to be nothing at all, or a Culture ship with some ridiculous but earnestly argued excuse, while the Culture or one of its snivelling client species got on - or away - with something else somewhere else, spoiling rightful Affronter fun.

The sojourn of Proserpine and also of Adonis, during six months of each year in the upper world, abode of light, and six months in the lower or abode of darkness, allegorically represented the same division of the Universe.

But if we attentively reflect how much swifter is the progress of corruption than its cure, and if we remember that the years abandoned to public disorders exceeded the months allotted to the martial reign of Aurelian, we must confess that a few short intervals of peace were insufficient for the arduous work of reformation.

These victorious Saracens enjoyed at Damascus a month of pleasure and repose: the spoil was divided by the discretion of Abu Obeidah: an equal share was allotted to a soldier and to his horse, and a double portion was reserved for the noble coursers of the Arabian breed.

A country palace, in the neighborhood of Compiegne was allotted for their residence or prison: but each year, in the month of March or May, they were conducted in a wagon drawn by oxen to the assembly of the Franks, to give audience to foreign ambassadors, and to ratify the acts of the mayor of the palace.