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NOVEMBER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The month following October and preceding December
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("November" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "November"):
November 5 (anniversary of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot)
11 November; Martinmas; St Martin's Day (the feast of Saint Martin; a quarter day in Scotland)
All Saints' Day; Allhallows; Hallowmas; Hallowmass; November 1 (a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835)
All Souls' Day; November 2 (a day of supplication for all the souls in purgatory)
Armistice Day; November 11; Veterans' Day; Veterans Day (a legal holiday in the United States; formerly Armistice Day but called Veterans' Day since 1954)
Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag)
mid-November (the middle part of November)
Holonyms ("November" 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)
Context examples:
All the long November evening I waited, filled with impatience for his return.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Would you believe it, Lizzy, that when he went to town last November, he really loved me, and nothing but a persuasion of my being indifferent would have prevented his coming down again!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
When Lucy first came to Barton Park last November, she told me in confidence of her engagement.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He had ridden over to Poole, one November day, with his fellow-squire, Peter Terlake, in quest of certain yew-staves from Wat Swathling, the Dorsetshire armorer.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
According to the rules of IUPAC, the four names — nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson — are to be subject to a five-month period of public scrutiny which ends November 2016.
(IUPAC proposes four new chemical element names, Wikinews)
Chandra first observed GK Persei in February 2000 and then again in November 2013.
("Mini Supernova" Explosion Could Have Big Impact, NASA)
But because Voyager 1's last planetary encounter was Saturn, the Voyager team hadn't needed to use the TCM thrusters since November 8, 1980.
(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)
To help fill the research gap, scientists conducted the Age of Blood in Children in Pediatric Intensive Care Units (ABC-PICU) randomized trial at 50 medical centers between February 2014 and November 2018.
(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)
In November 2018 the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope pinpointed a fast radio burst, named FRB 181112.
(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil halo, ESO)
WMO notes warmer than average temperatures dominated across much of the world’s land and ocean surfaces during November.
(World Meteorological Org.: Arctic Warming Appears Irreversible, VOA)
