month

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\ ˈmən(t)th

plural months\ ˈmən(t)s

, ˈmən(t)ths \

Definition of month

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

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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