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JANUARY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("January" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "January"):
Inauguration Day; January 20 (the day designated for inauguration of the United States President)
January 1; New Year's; New Year's Day (the first day of the year)
Martin Luther King Day; Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday (observed on the Monday closest to January 15)
Tet (the New Year in Vietnam; observed for three days after the first full moon after January 20th)
January 20; Saint Agnes's Eve (a Christian holy day)
January 1; Solemnity of Mary ((Roman Catholic Church) a holy day of obligation)
Epiphany; Epiphany of Our Lord; January 6; Three Kings' Day; Twelfth day (twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus)
Twelfth night (eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5)
Christmas; Christmastide; Christmastime; Noel; Yule; Yuletide (period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6)
mid-January (the middle part of January)
Holonyms ("January" 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:
Well, it was the beginning of ’84 when my father came to live at Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the January of ’85.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When full of flowers they would doubtless look pretty; but now, at the latter end of January, all was wintry blight and brown decay.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Merged with the Division of Basic Sciences in January, 2001 to form the Center for Cancer Research
(Division of Clinical Sciences, NCI Thesaurus)
When the ash finally settled in January 2015, a newborn island with a 400-foot (120-meter) summit nestled between two older islands – visible to satellites in space.
(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)
In the summer it might have passed; but what can any body's native air do for them in the months of January, February, and March?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
More notable findings around the world include: • The globally averaged sea surface temperature was the second warmest on record for October and warmest on record for the year to date (January–October).
(Last month tied as 3rd warmest October on record for the globe, NOAA)
On the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the evening delivery a registered envelope, addressed in the hand of my colleague and old school companion, Henry Jekyll.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Anne and me are to go the latter end of January to some relations who have been wanting us to visit them these several years!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Scientists had been regularly tracking the star, called NGC 2547-ID8, when it surged with a huge amount of fresh dust between August 2012 and January 2013.
(Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup, NASA)
Launched in March 2004, Rosetta was reactivated in January 2014 after a record 957 days in hibernation.
(Rosetta closing in on comet, NASA)
