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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“My kids are on the ski team and there’s this ski app where the calendar is kept,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Based on estimates adjusted to match calendar years, analysts expect Graham’s earnings per share to increase from $1.43 this year to $2.04 in 2027 and $2.59 in 2028.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
If Malaysia was keen on returning to the calendar on a more permanent basis, there is no reason why F1 would not listen to them.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
For example, he said, the Emmy voting and award show calendar might be adjusted after 2027 so the event could occur earlier in the year, such as in May, when the shows feel fresher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
But there was a more serious problem with Dionysius’s calendar: zero.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
The Roxy and Whisky, which are currently not part of Live on Sunset, have shows listed on their calendars for November 14.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
That new renaissance is now increasingly connected to agentic software – or programs capable of automatically completing tasks like managing calendars, booking reservations and sorting through email.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Muse, Instinct and agents like them promise to make your life easier by planning vacations, sorting calendars and cancelling subscription plans.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 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
That book had fancy pictures like the ones that came with the calendars I seen hanging up in the druggist in Chicago.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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
These witnesses would hang a calendared saint of a hundred miracles.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
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
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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