Library / English Dictionary

OCTOBER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The month following September and preceding November

Synonyms:

Oct; October

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("October" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "October"):

Columbus Day; Discovery Day; October 12 (a legal holiday commemorating the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus)

October 24; United Nations Day (a day for celebrating the founding of the United Nations)

mid-October (the middle part of October)

Holonyms ("October" 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)

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 Context examples: 

She must be grown two inches, at least, since October.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It read in this fashion: THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE IS DISSOLVED. October 9, 1890.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The private balls at the park then began; and parties on the water were made and accomplished as often as a showery October would allow.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

There has been a solemn engagement between them ever since October—formed at Weymouth, and kept a secret from every body.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But two months: they met in October at the county ball at S-.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The monitoring initiative is part of the first stage of the project, which began in October 2016 and will take 18 months to complete.

(Amazon jungle animals to be monitored by sensors, Agência Brasil)

A study published last October found an association between gum disease and higher blood pressure; another from last January reported a link between gum disease and elevated cancer risk.

(New Link Found between Alzheimer's & Gum Disease Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Hunsford, near Westerham, Kent, 15th October.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The authors speculate that delayed freezing of the sea surface may contribute to the thinning trend, as heavy snowfalls in September and October now fall into the open ocean.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)

The research team used advanced data-processing techniques on data from 1,300 GPS stations in the mountains of California, Oregon and Washington, collected from 2006 through October 2017.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)