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FEB
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The month following January and preceding March
Synonyms:
Feb; February
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Feb" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "Feb"):
bissextile day; February 29; leap day (the name of the day that is added during a leap year)
Candlemas; Candlemas Day; Feb 2 (feast day commemorating the presentation of Christ in the temple; a quarter day in Scotland)
February 2; Groundhog Day (if the ground hog emerges and sees his shadow on this day, there will be 6 more weeks of winter)
February 12; Lincoln's Birthday (the day on which President Abraham Lincoln is remembered)
February 14; Saint Valentine's Day; St Valentine's Day; Valentine's Day; Valentine Day (a day for the exchange of tokens of affection)
February 22; Washington's Birthday (the day on which George Washington is remembered)
Presidents' Day (the third Monday in February; commemorates both presidents Lincoln and Washington)
mid-February (the middle part of February)
Holonyms ("Feb" is a part of...):
Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)
