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SEPTEMBER
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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 ("September" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "September"):
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 ("September" 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:
It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales had set in with exceptional violence.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In a vote, on the 4 September 2008 the EP asked the Council to be more demanding on exposure levels this is proof that the subject leaves no one indifferent.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
Cassini's mission ended in September 2017 when, low on fuel, the spacecraft was deliberately plunged into Saturn's atmosphere by the mission team, which wanted to avoid crashing the craft onto the planet's moons.
(Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn, NASA)
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)
Then, after two large storms went across the Arctic basin in August, sea ice melt picked up speed through early September.
(Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record, NASA)
Anne had never entered Kellynch since her quitting Lady Russell's house in September.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It was in the latter end of September that I again quitted my native country.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The study began recruiting participants in April 1992 and closed enrollment in September 1997.
(Breast Cancer Prevention Trial, NCI Thesaurus)
Hubble uncovered the latest storm in September 2018 in Neptune's northern hemisphere.
(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)
I did as she asked, and read out: “Miss Polly Hinton, as ‘Peggy,’ in The Country Wife, played for her benefit at the Haymarket Theatre, September 14th, 1782.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
