July

//d͡ʒʊˈlaɪ// name

name ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    the month following June and preceding August wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August.

    "Holonyms: calendar year; year"

  2. 2
    A surname from French.
  3. 3
    A female given name from English. uncommon

    "By 1880, in his early to middle twenties, he had married a literate woman named July, who would be his first of three wives. Riley continued to live close to his parents, James and Frances, whose house was just three doors down and who still had four of their own children living with them in addition to a grandson."

Synonyms

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quintilisquintilisseventh month

Antonyms

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depend

Example

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"He was born on July 28th, 1888."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English Julie, julye, iulius, from Anglo-Norman julie, from Old French jule, juil, from Latin iūlius (Gaius Julius Caesar's month), perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios, "descended from Jove".

Etymology 2

A translation of the French surname Juillet.

Related phrases

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