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CALENDAR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc)

Example:

I have you on my calendar for next Monday

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("calendar" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calendar"):

docket ((law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities)

Derivation:

calendar (enter into a calendar)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A tabular array of the days (usually for one year)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("calendar" is a kind of...):

table; tabular array (a set of data arranged in rows and columns)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calendar"):

perpetual calendar (a chart or mechanical device that indicates the days of the week corresponding to any given date over a long period of years)

Derivation:

calendar (enter into a calendar)

calendric (relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("calendar" is a kind of...):

arrangement; organisation; organization; system (an organized structure for arranging or classifying)

Meronyms (parts of "calendar"):

embolism; intercalation (an insertion into a calendar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calendar"):

lunar calendar (a calendar based on lunar cycles)

lunisolar calendar (a calendar based on both lunar and solar cycles)

solar calendar (a calendar based on solar cycles)

Derivation:

calendric (relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enter into a calendar

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "calendar" is one way to...):

schedule (plan for an activity or event)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

calendar (a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc))

calendar (a tabular array of the days (usually for one year))

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 Context examples: 

The first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(January, NCI Thesaurus)

The eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(November, NCI Thesaurus)

The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(October, NCI Thesaurus)

When used in the phrase "physiologic age," it refers to an age assigned by general health, as opposed to calendar age.

(Physiologic, NCI Dictionary)

If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of the 12 divisions of a year as determined by a calendar.

(Month, NCI Thesaurus)

The fifth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(May, NCI Thesaurus)

The seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(July, NCI Thesaurus)

The sixth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(June, NCI Thesaurus)

The third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(March, NCI Thesaurus)