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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The final vote came on Monday on a consent calendar, the place for matters considered so routine that no legislator even wishes to discuss them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The system encourages him to sleep in on Mondays and travel less on weekdays, and helps him organize his calendar and pick out gifts for friends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
This year is the first on record when 35C or above has been reached in three separate calendar months - May, June and July.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Presidential results are due August 17, according to the electoral commission's calendar.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
When Jonah went back into the house, he saw that Mom had already written 9–3, adoption conference in the October 28 square on the kitchen calendar.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
In theory, we could able to liberate ourselves of dull, menial tasks, such as replying to emails, going to meetings or managing calendars and diaries, by delegating these to capable bots.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Watering holes are programming their calendars accordingly, with nostalgia theme nights and parties that end way before midnight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
A smartphone might book restaurant reservations on its own because it has users’ calendars and knows their dietary restrictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
If voluntarily storing information with Google destroys Fourth Amendment protection, he suggested, why would the same logic not apply to email, documents, cloud photographs, or calendars?
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
They lean down to confer with their clients, go on and off the record, consult their calendars.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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
Archives have been reformed, their contents catalogued or calendared; government commissions have rescued numberless documents from oblivion or destruction, and learned societies have supplemented and criticized this work and co-ordinated the results.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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 common thread is that academics can be incredibly resistant to fostering healthy, considerate calendaring practices.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
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
France was in his low-ceiled study, occupied as usual with drawers full of documents of various kinds; most of them mediaeval deeds and charters which he was calendaring for the Cathedral Library.
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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