Definition
nounAlternative letter-case form of November from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
nameThe eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following October and preceding December.
Sentence Examples
Please fill in the application form and send it back by November 2nd.
The speech contest took place on the ninth of November.
I will be on vacation for a week in November
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥
Proto-Italic *nown̥
Latin novem
Latin November
Latin november
Old French novembrebor.
Middle English Novembre
English November
From Middle English Novembre, from Old French novembre, from Latin November (“ninth month”), from Latin novem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix. November was the ninth month in the Roman calendar.
Displaced native Old English blōtmōnaþ (literally “sacrifice month”), so called because the Anglo-Saxons, when they were pagans, would sacrifice in this month before the winter set in.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Red o'er the forest glows the setting sun, / The line of yellow light dies fast away / That crown'd the eastern copse, and chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day."
— 1827, [John Keble], “Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 85:
"This is an annotated wordlist of the Ayere language, spoken in Ayere village in Kwara State, Nigeria. The wordlist was written by Mr. E.O. Olumorin for the West African Languages Survey in November 1961."
— 2007 February 5, Roger Blench, “The Ayere and Ahan languages of Central Nigeria and their affinities”, in rogerblench.info, page 1:
"Stadia, Google’s cloud gaming service, launched in November 2019, with some likening it to the Netflix (NFLX) of video games."
— 2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN Business:
"An LMPD Board Notice of Hearing states part of Cosgrove’s hearings took place in November. The second half of his hearing is set to begin Monday and end Wednesday."
— 2021 December 13, Amir Vera, “Louisville detective who fatally shot Breonna Taylor is appealing his termination from the police department”, in CNN: