month

noun

\ 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.

Recent Examples on the Web

As Investopedia points out, that could amount to an extra $218 a month, based on the average cost of a home in the U.S. ($261,500, according to 2018 Zillow data). — Nancy Mann Jackson, House Beautiful, "How Much Money You'll Really Need To Buy A House," 26 Feb. 2019 Rent the Runway plans start at $89 per month (after a $69 trial month) for four designer items at a time. — Erin Quinn-kong, Woman's Day, "Are Your Fast-Fashion Clothes Killing Farmers?," 14 Feb. 2019 Visible is Verizon’s answer to AT&T’s Cricket Wireless, offering unlimited data, minutes, and messages for $40 a month. — Michael Simon, PCWorld, "Verizon's $40 unlimited Visible service on Android FAQ: What is it and how to switch," 24 Jan. 2019 There were months of walkouts, meetings with politicians, acts of solidarity. — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, "A Year After the Parkland Shooting, Has Anything Really Changed?," 14 Feb. 2019 The palace statement followed months of Meghan secretly visiting the organization’s north London headquarters. — Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, ""She Really Gets It": How Duchess Meghan Is Changing Lives with Her First Patronage," 10 Jan. 2019 The common practice of tax evasion by China’s top celebrities has become a crime worth months of detainment and costly fines. — Shannon Liao, The Verge, "2018 was the year Chinese internet users evaded censorship — briefly," 20 Dec. 2018 Our divorce was contentious and involved months of hearings. — Jessica Wakeman, Glamour, "10 Divorced Women on How They Spent Their First Single Night," 28 Nov. 2018 The starting price for the Pixel Slate will be $599, and its purchase will include three free months of YouTube TV. — Melissa Riofrio, PCWorld, "Google Pixel Slate: The top features, specs, and highlights," 9 Oct. 2018

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