calendar
[kal-uhn-der]
- 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, Jewish calendar, Julian calendar, Muslim 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.
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- to enter in a calendar; register.
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Origin of calendar
Synonyms
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Related Words
almanacjournallistprogramdiaryagendatimetabletablelineupdocketcardchronologydaybooklogregisterrecordtabtimebulletinpipelineExamples from the Web for calendar
Contemporary Examples
Mark your calendar for the global summit, April 22 to 24 in NYC!
Save the Date: Women in the World 2015December 23, 2014
Chanukah itself is a relatively minor holiday on the religious Jewish calendar.
Even if they managed two or three days of hearings for Lynch, the calendar automatically goes into the following week.
Only there will they be able to have an abortion performed, but first, they must wait—exactly 72 hours, not three calendar days.
He then got rid of all the ridiculous sides of it: like the 10-day calendar, the cult of the Supreme Being, and mass guillotines.
Historical Examples
If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar.
The White CompanyArthur Conan Doyle
Had she any tangible ground for believing that Calendar could be found in Queensborough?
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
Calendar's chuckle was not audible, but he broke the pause that followed.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
Calendar surrendered an untenable position as gracefully as could be wished.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
The transaction by any name would smell no sweeter, Calendar.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
calendar
- a system for determining the beginning, length, and order of years and their divisionsSee 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
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- (tr) to enter in a calendar; schedule; register
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Word Origin
C13: via Norman French from Medieval Latin kalendārium account book, from Kalendae the calends, when interest on debts became due
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Word Origin and History for calendar
n.
c.1200, "system of division of the year;" mid-14c. as "table showing divisions of the year;" from Old French calendier "list, register," from Latin calendarium "account book," from calendae/kalendae "calends" the first day of the Roman month -- when debts fell due and accounts were reckoned -- from calare "to announce solemnly, call out," as the priests did in proclaiming the new moon that marked the calends, from PIE root kele- (2) "to call, shout" (see claim (v.)).
Taken by the early Church for its register list of saints and their feast days. The -ar spelling in English is 17c. to differentiate it from the now obscure calender "cloth-presser."
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