june
/d͡ʒun/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.21 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July, containing the northern solstice.
name
A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English], for a girl born in June, used since the end of the 19th century.
name
A male given name, or more often nickname, for a boy who is junior to someone else, especially someone with the same name, such as his father.
Example Sentences
- "Holonyms: calendar year; year"
- "this glad June day"
- "'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed."
- "Direct investment liabilities, a measure of FDI reflected in a country’s balance of payments, fell to just $4.9 billion in the April to June months, down 87% from a year earlier, according to data published by SAFE last month. That was the lowest amount in any quarter since records began in 1998."
- "Her parents were old, really old. That's why they'd given her such an old-fashioned name. June, because she was born in June. If she'd been born in November would they have called her November? June was a name for women in sitcoms and soap operas, the name of women who knit with synthetic wool and follow recipes that use cornflakes, not the name of a thirty-year-old with a ring in her nose ('Oh, June'.)"
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:June."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dyew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- Proto-Indo-European *-u Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyuder.? Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder. Latin Iūnō Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin Iūnius Latin iūnius Old French juinbor. Middle English Juyn Middle English June English June From Middle English June, june, re-Latinised variants of earlier Middle English Juyn, juyng, from Old French juing, juin, from Latin iūnius, the month of the goddess Iuno (“Juno”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu (“vital force, youthful vigor”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: June, Juyn, juing, iūnius, *h₂yéwHō, *h₂óyu
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /d͡ʒun/
- British English: /d͡ʒuːn/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Junes (plural)
Jun (alternative, abbreviation)
Jun. (alternative, abbreviation)
junes (present, singular)
juning (participle, present)
juned (participle, past)
juned (past)
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