| Library / English Dictionary |
FEBRUARY
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The month following January and preceding March
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("February" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "February"):
bissextile day; February 29; leap day (the name of the day that is added during a leap year)
Candlemas; Candlemas Day; Feb 2 (feast day commemorating the presentation of Christ in the temple; a quarter day in Scotland)
February 2; Groundhog Day (if the ground hog emerges and sees his shadow on this day, there will be 6 more weeks of winter)
February 12; Lincoln's Birthday (the day on which President Abraham Lincoln is remembered)
February 14; Saint Valentine's Day; St Valentine's Day; Valentine's Day; Valentine Day (a day for the exchange of tokens of affection)
February 22; Washington's Birthday (the day on which George Washington is remembered)
Presidents' Day (the third Monday in February; commemorates both presidents Lincoln and Washington)
mid-February (the middle part of February)
Holonyms ("February" is a part of...):
Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)
Context examples:
It was the beginning of February; and Anne, having been a month in Bath, was growing very eager for news from Uppercross and Lyme.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Fanny had been everywhere awake to the difference of the country since February; but when they entered the Park her perceptions and her pleasures were of the keenest sort.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
An infrared image captured during their observing campaign in January, February and May of 2017 clearly shows hot spots near the poles, where Jupiter's auroras are.
(Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar Wind, NASA)
The Commandant Ferraz Station was installed two years later, in February 1984, lodging military agents and scientists.
(Brazil ship off to Antarctica for research support, Agência Brasil)
NASA partnered with lead contractor, Lockheed Martin, in February 2016 for the QueSST preliminary design.
(NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane, NASA)
The first operational dive of Okeanos Explorer’s 2016 season, on February 27, explored depths of over 4,000 meters northeast of Necker Island (Mokumanamana) in the Hawaiian Archipelago.
(Deep Discoverer Discovers a Very Deep, Ghostlike Octopod, NOAA)
The spacecraft’s first orbital insertion is scheduled for Dec. 31, and OSIRIS-REx will remain in orbit until mid-February 2019, when it exits to initiate another series of flybys for the next survey phase.
(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)
I began this desperate voyage on February 15, 1714–15, at nine o’clock in the morning.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the wintry sun.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With no greater events than these in the Longbourn family, and otherwise diversified by little beyond the walks to Meryton, sometimes dirty and sometimes cold, did January and February pass away.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
