How do you use the word "month" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "month": He's got a face like a month of wet Sundays. How many times a month do you write home?

Month Meaning

/mʌnθ/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.

nounA period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.

Sentence Examples

He's got a face like a month of wet Sundays.

How many times a month do you write home?

The commission is expected to report its findings next month.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The calendar displays the name of the current ____ at the top in large letters.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We am planning to take a two-week vacation to the coast next ____ if we can manage to finish all our current work projects on time.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥sder. Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ Old English mōnaþ Middle English mon(e)th English month From Middle English mon(e)th, from Old English mōnaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably derived from *meh₁- (“measure”) with moon-cycles being used to measure time. Related to moon. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mound (“month”), Dutch maand (“month”), German Low German Maand (“month”), German Monat (“month”), Danish måned (“month”), Swedish månad (“month”), Icelandic mánuður (“month”). Eclipsed non-native Old English calend (“month”), borrowed from Latin calendae.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month." — 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

"Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour." — 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

"With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury." — 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:

"The demolition of two mosques in India within days of each other has highlighted the deep religious divide in the country, months before voters head to the polls for a nationwide election that is expected to hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi a rare third term in power." — 2024 February 15, Aishwarya S Iyer and Rhea Mogul, “‘Erasing a part of history’ – What a double mosque demolition tells us about India ahead of crucial election”, in CNN:

"Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months." — 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

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