April
//ˈeɪ.pɹəl// name
name ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 the month following March and preceding May wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, following March and preceding May.
"Holonyms: calendar year; year"
- 2 A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English]; used since the early 20th century.
"I'm April Hooper. That sounds silly, the April part, but my mother was English and she always said there was nothing prettier than an English April."
- 3 A surname.
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More examples"Your technical manager arranged a meeting for 1:00 p.m. on April 6, but how about April 7, at 10:00 a.m.?"
Etymology
From Middle English apprile, Aprill, re-Latinised from Middle English aueril, from Old French avrill, from Latin Aprīlis (“of the month of the goddess Venus”), perhaps based on Etruscan 𐌀𐌐𐌓𐌖 (apru), from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē, “Venus”). Displaced native Old English ēastermōnaþ (literally “Easter month”).
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