calendar
a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
any of various systems of reckoning time, especially with reference to the beginning, length, and divisions of the year.: Compare Chinese calendar, Gregorian calendar, Hindu calendar, Islamic calendar, Jewish calendar, Julian calendar.
a list or register, especially one arranged chronologically, as of appointments, work to be done, or cases to be tried in a court.
a list, in the order to be considered, of bills, resolutions, etc., brought before a legislative body.
Obsolete. a guide or example.
to enter in a calendar; register.
Origin of calendar
1Other words for calendar
Other words from calendar
- ca·len·dri·cal [kuh-len-dri-kuhl], /kəˈlɛn drɪ kəl/, ca·len·dric, cal·en·dar·i·al [kal-uhn-dair-ee-uhl], /ˌkæl ənˈdɛər i əl/, cal·en·dar·i·an, cal·en·dar·ic, adjective
- un·cal·en·dared, adjective
Words that may be confused with calendar
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How to use calendar in a sentence
When she was three, she had only a basic concept of time, with little awareness of clocks or calendars.
Humanity is stuck in short-term thinking. Here’s how we escape. | Katie McLean | October 21, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIn her new role, Hope will help develop the event calendar with the executive team for existing and new products, manage event programming across all brands and help navigate content for clients.
Recent promotions announced at Digiday Media as the company focuses on growth | jim cooper | October 16, 2020 | DigidayMaybe can look into your calendar if you give permission for that.
Not only is it reshaping the holiday shopping calendar in the US, it also threatens to siphon sales from other retailers through the end of the year as it drives more sign ups for Prime.
As the calendar flipped to October, the start of the final quarter of 2020, these clouds hung thick and dark over the markets.
This year’s ‘October surprise’ could impact your portfolio for years to come | Bernhard Warner | October 11, 2020 | Fortune
The documents have not yet been calendared, but they do not appear to contain anything relating to Shrewsbury.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertWhen possible, these documents are classified, calendared, and indexed.
The Ontario Archives | Alexander FraserAs yet a very small proportion of them has been printed, and few have 448even been calendared.
The History of England | T.F. ToutIt has been erroneously calendared by Brewer as a bill of mortality of the sweating sickness in 1528.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) | Charles CreightonThe Scottish and Irish state papers are calendared in separate series and without much system.
British Dictionary definitions for calendar
/ (ˈkælɪndə) /
a system for determining the beginning, length, and order of years and their divisions: See also Gregorian calendar, Jewish calendar, Julian calendar, Revolutionary calendar, Roman calendar
a table showing any such arrangement, esp as applied to one or more successive years
a list, register, or schedule of social events, pending court cases, appointments, etc
(tr) to enter in a calendar; schedule; register
Origin of calendar
1Derived forms of calendar
- calendrical (kæˈlɛndrɪkəl) or calendric, adjective
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