calendar month
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of calendar month
First recorded in 1780–90
Example Sentences
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Additionally, the Met Office said that Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire had their wettest calendar month ever recorded in a series going back to 1836.
From BBC • Oct. 1, 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
Betts, whose 51 hits in August set a franchise record for a calendar month, has driven in 98 runs.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2023
Each month usually hosts only one full moon, but blue moons sometimes arise because the lunar cycle is 29.5 days long — just short of the length of an average calendar month.
From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2023
And then came the dull November morning which completed the calendar month since her wedding-day, and her husband had made no sign.
From The Golden Calf by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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