monthly
/ˈmʌnθli/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.50 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A publication that is published once a month.
noun
The menstrual period.
Example Sentences
- "It's time give the dog its monthly bath."
- "all of these services, including mSpy, function with the same kind of predatory subscription scheme, luring you in with free trials that autorenew as abhorrently expensive monthly or yearly subscriptions. canceling the service requires reaching out to support, so users are typically unable to avoid overrunning the trial."
- "Rent must be paid monthly."
- "Of the 10 monthlies with the worst declines in January, four were Condé Nast magazines: Wired, Architectural Digest, Vogue and Lucky."
- "Katherine assumed she was having her monthly. She could recall times when her own monthly was so intense that it showed on her face."
Etymology
From month + -ly (adjectival suffix), perhaps via Middle English *monethly (attested only adverbially), from Old English mōnaþlīċ (“monthly”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþlīk, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþlīkaz (“monthly”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian moundelk (“monthly”), German monatlich (“monthly”), Danish månedlig (“monthly”), Swedish månatlig (“monthly”), Norwegian Bokmål månedlig (“monthly”), Icelandic mánaðarlegur (“monthly”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
mon. (alternative, abbreviation)
monthlies (plural)