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calendar month

(Astronomy) See month¹

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Noun

calendar month - one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year; "he paid the bill last month"

month

period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"

calendar week, week - a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday

date - the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred; "he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class"

Revolutionary calendar month - a month in the Revolutionary calendar

Gregorian calendar month - a month in the Gregorian calendar

Jewish calendar month - a month in the Jewish calendar

Islamic calendar month - any lunar month in the Muslim calendar

Hindu calendar month - any lunisolar month in the Hindu calendar

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calendar month

n → Kalendermonat m

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calendar month

n → mese m civile

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The condition with which alone we have here to concern ourselves was one which provided that each of the two lovers, hereafter to be called the husband of the one part and the wife of the other part, solemnly bound themselves to spend one calendar month of each year out of each other's society, with full and free liberty to spend it wheresoever, with whomsoever, and howsoever they pleased; and that this condition was rigidly to be maintained, whatever immediate effort it might cost, as the parties thereto believed that so would their love the more likely maintain an enduring tenderness and an unwearied freshness.

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They have therefore passed over the obvious punishment of whipping on the bare back, in mercy to your years; but, as the dignity of the law requires an open exhibition of the consequences of your crime, it is ordered that you be conveyed from this room to the public stocks, where you are to be confined for one hour; that you pay a fine to the State of one hundred dollars; and that you be imprisoned in the jail of this county for one calendar month, and, furthermore, that your imprisonment do not cease until the said fine shall be paid.

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".....in either of those cases, I make it a condition of his receiving the legacy that he shall be married within the period of Six calendar months from the day of my decease; that the woman he marries shall not be a widow; and that his marriage shall be a marriage by Banns, publicly celebrated in the parish church of Ossory -- where he has been known from his childhood, and where the family and circumstances of his future wife are likely to be the subject of public interest and inquiry."

"If your nephew fails to comply with these conditions -- that is to say, if being either a bachelor or a widower at the time of my decease, he fails to marry in all respects as I have here instructed him to marry, within Six calendar months from that time -- it is my desire that he shall not receive the legacy, or any part of it.

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Jekyll's "disappearance or unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months," the said Edward Hyde should step into the said Henry Jekyll's shoes without further delay and free from any burthen or obligation beyond the payment of a few small sums to the members of the doctor's household.

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- I entered on a not unlaborious task of clandestine investigation, protracted - now, to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, over a period exceeding twelve calendar months."'

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Joe Rao from Space.com said: "A second full moon in a single calendar month is sometimes called a blue moon.

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The lunar phenomenon is similar to the well-known blue moon, which is the name given to the second full moon in a calendar month. The last time that two new moons fell in the same month was in March 2014.

Rare black moon to appear on Western Hemisphere Friday

The last month of 2015 was not only the wettest December on record, but the wettest calendar month overall in the records dating back to 1910.

December UK's wettest on record

The term "blue moon" refers to the second of two full moons appearing in the same calendar month.

Blue Moon set to rise on July 31 - the last one until January 31 2018; Friday's Blue Moon is the first to occur since August 2012 and stargazers will have to wait another three years to see it again

TAHRAN (CyHAN)- Iran's exports to Europe registered a 33.51 percent fall in terms of value year on year and stood at $65 million during the last Iranian calendar month (March 21-April 21).

Iran's exports to Europe fall by 33%

The apex bank said that the inflation rate for the 12-month period that ended on the last day of the Iranian calendar month of Tir (July 22) was 25.3 percent, which is a 2.4 per cent decrease compared to the previous month.