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MONTHLY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("monthly" is a kind of...):
serial; serial publication; series (a periodical that appears at scheduled times)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or occurring or payable every month
Example:
the monthly newsletter
Classified under:
Similar:
periodic; periodical (happening or recurring at regular intervals)
Derivation:
month (a time unit of approximately 30 days)
month (one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Occurring once a month
Example:
they meet monthly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
monthly (of or occurring or payable every month)
Context examples:
Limited monthly premiums are required from beneficiaries for non-hospital coverage.
(Medicare, NCI Thesaurus)
And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The executor of the estate forced us to sell because the monthly overhead was costly.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A recently published study that ranked 37 years of monthly sea ice extents in the Arctic and Antarctic found that there has not been a record high in Arctic sea ice extents in any month since 1986.
(Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record, NASA)
The meaner families who have children at these nurseries, are obliged, besides their annual pension, which is as low as possible, to return to the steward of the nursery a small monthly share of their gettings, to be a portion for the child; and therefore all parents are limited in their expenses by the law.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
To cap everything, the adventure serial for boys, his second attempt, was accepted before the end of the week by a juvenile monthly calling itself Youth and Age.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I don’t often talk about mid-points, because I feel I already give you a lot to think about in my monthly columns, but I will try to explain it in a simple way here.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It was at this time that he wrote letters of inquiry to the several great monthly and quarterly reviews, and learned in reply that they rarely considered unsolicited articles, and that most of their contents were written upon order by well-known specialists who were authorities in their various fields.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Back it came, with the editor's regrets, and Martin sent it to San Francisco again, this time to The Hornet, a pretentious monthly that had been fanned into a constellation of the first magnitude by the brilliant journalist who founded it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
