calendar
Americannoun
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calendars
plural
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a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year.
He marked the date on his calendar.
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any of various systems of reckoning time, especially with reference to the beginning, length, and divisions of the year.
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a list or register, especially one arranged chronologically, as of appointments, work to be done, or cases to be tried in a court.
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a list, in the order to be considered, of bills, resolutions, etc., brought before a legislative body.
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Obsolete. a guide or example.
verb (used with object)
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calendars,
present (3rd person singular)
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calendared,
past participle, past
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calendaring
present participle
noun
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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
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a table showing any such arrangement, esp as applied to one or more successive years
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a list, register, or schedule of social events, pending court cases, appointments, etc
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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calendarialadjective
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calendarianadjective
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calendaricadjective
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calendricadjective
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calendricaladjective
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uncalendaredadjective
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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calendarsimple
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calendarssimple
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have calendaredperfect
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has calendaredperfect
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am calendaringprogressive
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are calendaringprogressive
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is calendaringprogressive
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have been calendaringperfect progressive
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has been calendaringperfect progressive
Past
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calendaredsimple
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had calendaredperfect
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was calendaringprogressive
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were calendaringprogressive
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had been calendaringperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of calendar
First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English calender, from Anglo-French, from Latin calendārium “account book,” equivalent to Calend(ae) calends (when debts were due) + -ārium -ary
Explanation
A calendar is a chart that organizes the year into days, weeks or months. It's also a list of appointments or activities, like the calendar for the club that lists when the bands are playing. A calendar might hang on your refrigerator, where you can scribble your appointments on the squares. If you have something scheduled every day of the week, your calendar is full. In that case you might keep track of your dates with a calendar on your computer (or phone). Don't misspell it with an er ending, or you're referring to a machine that presses cloth. If you remember that "DAys" are in calenDArs, then you'll know to end it with a DAr.
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Example Sentences
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While Micron’s earnings report doesn’t align with the usual calendar schedule that other companies follow, FactSet considers the company’s results to be part of the third quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
Mark it on a calendar to go see a Pepperdine game or the high school basketball event on Dec. 22 to enjoy the newest arena setting in Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Baseball’s regular season is coming to an end, which means that 162 games of weirdness are about to give way to the part of the calendar that really matters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Britain's Chadwick joins an exclusive list of women to have driven an F1 car, after taking part in 32 laps at the Portimao circuit in Portugal, which will be on the F1 calendar in 2027.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
I keep the new calendar I got for Christmas on the wall right above my bed.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
The Queen of Country is being honored with a special day on Californians’ calendars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Nearly twenty scrolls discovered at Qumran address calendars and astronomy, an unusually large number that indicates how significant these subjects were to the community.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
So why do we have three calendars and in 2026 who is actually using them?
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Users of Instinct can call or text the AI bot and ask it to respond to emails, manage calendars, book a ride to the airport, arrange a handyman and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
We were agrarian, unsophisticated, industrious people, Jews and Christians alike, whose lives revolved around family, our religious calendars, and the seasons of sowing and reaping.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit declined to block the new plan on an emergency basis, and rapidly calendared the case for oral argument.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2026
Her rapidity signaled that the trial will be calendared for an early 2024 date, well before the election.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2023
Circuit Court of Appeals has tentatively calendared the South Carolina case for oral arguments the week of Dec. 6, according to an order from the court posted Friday.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
Documents confirm my memory that this was calendared as “Meeting: Don Jr.| Jared Kushner.”
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2018
"Every one of the women are calendared in this delightful, this pathetic, this truly virtuous and tender way; and can you suppose that a man who wrote such sentiments could be a murderer, miss?"
From Stories of Comedy by Rossiter Johnson
He would improve court efficiency with clear calendaring practices and firm and fair deadline enforcement.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
“That also means we should explicitly plan to allow sufficient time for our wind-down routine before going to sleep,” while calendaring time for meals and workouts earlier in the day.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023
A calendaring notice filed in the court’s electronic docketing system did not specify charges or whether Chansley had entered a plea deal with prosecutors.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
But he also, more mysteriously, choked up as he discussed his habit of calendaring his high school years or remembered his buddies on the basketball team.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2018
This gentleman, Mr. Turnbull, happened to be employed some years ago in arranging, copying, and calendaring the Elizabethan State papers.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
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