monthnoun [ C ]
uk/mʌnθ/us/mʌnθ/A1 a period of about four weeks, especially one of the twelve periods into which a year is divided:
I'll be away for a month from mid-June to mid-July.
February is the shortest month.
a two-month-old puppy
The project will be finished in the next few months (= quite soon).
They haven't been in contact with me for months (= a long time).
Students have two months' vacation during the summer.
More examples
- Her sculptures will be on show at the museum until the end of the month.
- We spent a month touring round Kenya.
- There's still a whole month till my birthday.
- Sophie took her first steps when she was eleven months old.
- We enjoy being able to eat outside during the summer months.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Specific periods of time
- around-the-clock
- British Summer Time
- BST
- calendar month
- daylight saving time
- depth
- generation
- hr
- hundred
- Jurassic
- lunar month
- microsecond
- midpoint
- Q, q
- quarter
- Quaternary
- response time
- s
- sec
- trimester
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Idiom(s)
not in a month of Sundays