calendar
/ˈkæl.ən.də/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.30 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.
verb
To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The three principal calendars are the Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic calendars."
- "Write his birthday on the calendar hanging on the wall."
- "The club has a busy calendar this year."
- "a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court"
- "Shepherds of People, had need know the Kalenders of Tempeſts in State; which are commonly greateſt, when Things grow to Equality; As naturall Tempeſts are greateſt about the Æquinoctia."
- "The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared."
Etymology
Etymology tree Old French calendierbor. Middle English kalender English calendar From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from kalō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium. Displaced native Old English rīmbōc and ġerīmbōc.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: kalender, calendier, calendarium, *kelh₁-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkæl.ən.də/
- British English: /ˈkæl.ən.də/
Usage
- American usage
- Transitive verb
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Religion.