calendar month
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of calendar month
First recorded in 1780–90
Example Sentences
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Additionally there will be an extra full Moon on 31 May, known as a blue Moon - the name given to the second full Moon in a calendar month.
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026
The default position would be that only one twelfth of last year's budget would be released each calendar month - without the increases due from the Treasury.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2025
The phrase does not describe the color of the moon; instead, it refers to the second full moon occurring in one calendar month.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
Holi is celebrated at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, on the last full moon day of the Hindu luni-solar calendar month of Falgun.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2024
To my wife's cousin, Griffith Gaunt, I give and bequeath the sum of two thousand pounds, the same to be paid to him within one calendar month from the date of my decease.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various
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