monthly
Americanadjective
noun
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a periodical published once a month.
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Informal. Sometimes monthlies. a menstrual period.
adverb
adjective
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occurring, done, appearing, payable, etc, once every month
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lasting or valid for a month
a monthly subscription
adverb
noun
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a book, periodical, magazine, etc, published once a month
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informal a menstrual period
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Etymology
Origin of monthly
Explanation
Anything monthly happens once a month. A monthly paycheck will enable you to pay your monthly rent. Whew! Monthly works well as both an adjective and an adverb, describing anything that occurs every month. You might get a monthly paycheck or make monthly phone calls to your grandmother. Or a freelance writer might write a couple of articles monthly and travel monthly to a nearby amusement park. A monthly can also be a magazine that's published once a month.
Example Sentences
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A Notice of Default was filed on behalf of Mountain Trails Community Association after monthly dues started going unpaid in January 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Treasury bond’s yield is now on pace to wrap up July with its largest monthly gain since March.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
As investors entered the last trading day of July on Friday, tech-sector ETFs had attracted strong monthly inflows of around $20 billion through Thursday, he noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Karen Dry, who organised monthly vigils for the victims' families when the investigation began, said: "No sentence was ever going to be enough."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
And my monthly teleportation expenses were often astronomical.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Elijah James’ “Upcycled Comedy” has booked stand-up in Indio with monthlies at Urban Donkey vintage store since 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2025
Flaherty said the World’s news department has between 12 and 15 people who produce the newspaper, several weeklies, two monthlies, the website and newsletters.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
Now dozens of liberated towns issued their own weeklies and monthlies.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
There were relatively few exclusively upmarket magazines for them to advertise in: mainly women’s monthlies such as Tatler and Vogue.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2018
It is to be wished that our own literati and miscellaneous intellectual purveyors would make a far more extended use of these German monthlies than they have hitherto done.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
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