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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The month following August and preceding October
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Sep" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "Sep"):
Michaelmas; Michaelmas Day; September 29 (honoring the archangel Michael; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland)
Labor Day (first Monday in September in the United States and Canada)
Citizenship Day; September 17 (celebrated in the United States)
American Indian Day (US: the 4th Friday in September)
mid-September (the middle part of September)
autumnal equinox; fall equinox; September equinox (September 22)
9-11; 9/11; Sep 11; Sept. 11; September 11 (the day in 2001 when Arab suicide bombers hijacked United States airliners and used them as bombs)
Holonyms ("Sep" 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)
