plural months
ˈmən(t)s 
ˈmən(t)ths
1
: a measure of time corresponding nearly to the period of the moon's revolution and amounting to approximately 4 weeks or 30 days or 1/12 of a year
2
months plural
: an indefinite usually extended period of time
He has been gone for months.
3
: one ninth of the typical duration of human pregnancy
She was in her eighth month.
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Examples of month in a Sentence
July is my favorite month.
It was hard to keep warm in the cabin during the winter months.
the merry month of May
I saw her last month and I'll see her again next month.
The price sometimes changes dramatically from one month to the next.
He was gone for a month.
She was back to work a month after the accident.
He's been gone for months.
I haven't talked to her in months.
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The construction of the Orient Express Corinthian reached a major milestone in June 2025, when the vessel was floated out for the first time after roughly four and a half months of assembly.
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Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2026
The result has been a flood of habeas-corpus petitions filed in federal courts—more than fifteen thousand in the past two months alone.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
In their only other meeting with the Rangers this season, the Wild got one of their three wins in the month of October, grabbing a 3-1 victory at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, with Yurov scoring his first NHL goal.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
But Saturday's launches appeared to dim such hopes, signaling defiance by Pyongyang, which in recent months has hardened its stance toward Seoul and urged Washington to drop denuclearization demands as a precondition for talks.
—Arkansas Online, 15 Mar. 2026
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Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2026
The result has been a flood of habeas-corpus petitions filed in federal courts—more than fifteen thousand in the past two months alone.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
In their only other meeting with the Rangers this season, the Wild got one of their three wins in the month of October, grabbing a 3-1 victory at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, with Yurov scoring his first NHL goal.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
But Saturday's launches appeared to dim such hopes, signaling defiance by Pyongyang, which in recent months has hardened its stance toward Seoul and urged Washington to drop denuclearization demands as a precondition for talks.
—Arkansas Online, 15 Mar. 2026
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“Month.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/month. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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