Calendar

  • 21calendar — n. chart that shows the days and months 1) the Chinese; Gregorian; Hindu; Islamic, Muslim; Jewish; Julian; Roman calendar 2) a perpetual calendar schedule 3) to clear one s calendar 4) a court; full; school; social calendar 5) on a calendar (what …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 22calendar — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. almanac; diary, journal, log; register, schedule; docket. See chronometry. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. timetable, schedule, datebook, appointment book, diary, Filofax (trademark), chronology, log, logbook …

    English dictionary for students

  • 23calendar — [[t]kæ̱lɪndə(r)[/t]] calendars 1) N COUNT A calendar is a chart or device which displays the date and the day of the week, and often the whole of a particular year divided up into months, weeks, and days. There was a calendar on the wall above,… …

    English dictionary

  • 24calendar — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ busy, full ▪ The group has a busy social calendar. ▪ sporting (BrE), sports ▪ golfing, racing …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 25calendar — cal|en|dar [ˈkælındə US ər] n [Date: 1100 1200; : Anglo French; Origin: calender, from Medieval Latin kalendarium, from Latin kalendae first day of an ancient Roman month ] 1.) a set of pages that show the days, weeks, and months of a particular… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 26calendar */*/ — UK [ˈkælɪndə(r)] / US [ˈkæləndər] noun [countable] Word forms calendar : singular calendar plural calendars 1) a set of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a particular year a wall/desk calendar 2) a system for measuring the length of a… …

    English dictionary

  • 27calendar — 1. noun /ˈkæl.ən.də,ˈkæl.ən.dɚ/ a) Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years. We currently use the Gregorian calendar. b) A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and othe …

    Wiktionary

  • 28calendar —    The English calendar is based on that devised by Julius Caesar, the Julian calendar . It has twelve months, beginning on 1 January, but as the Christian Church disapproved of the wild festivities held by pagan Romans around that date it chose… …

    A Dictionary of English folklore

  • 29calendar — The mode of adjusting the natural divisions of time with respect to each other for the purposes of civil life. 52 Am J1st Time § 9; a tabulation of time by days and weeks in the succession of the months; a system of measuring time as in years,… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 30Calendar —    The word calendar is derived from the Latin word calo, meaning, to reckon. From this the first day of every Roman month was called Calends, hence Calendar. Calendars are known to have been in use at a very early date. One is still extant that… …

    American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia