# month

Pronunciation: say "MUNTH" /mʌnθ/

## Noun

1. A period of about four weeks or thirty days, or the time from a given date to the same date in the next month.
   - Simple: A length of time of about four weeks, or about 30 days.
   - _The free trial lasts one month, starting from the day you sign up._
   - _The contract spans eighteen months from the signing date._
2. One of the twelve named periods into which a year is divided, originally based on the phases of the moon.
   - Simple: One of the twelve named parts that a year is divided into.
   - _February is the shortest month of the year._
   - _My birthday falls in the same month as my sister's, so we often celebrate together._

## Noun

3. In the plural, months: a woman's monthly menstrual discharge. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Used as months: the monthly blood a woman loses during her period.

## Origin

"Month" comes from Middle English mon(e)th, from Old English mōnaþ, and further back through Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs to Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s ("moon, month"). This is probably derived from a root *meh₁- ("measure"), since moon-cycles were used to measure time. It is related to "moon."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/month (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).