What does "june" mean?
the month following May and preceding July
June
/d͡ʒuːn/ name, verb, slang
name, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: the month following May and preceding July
- Grammar: june is listed as name, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: calendar month, early summer month, early-summer, forename.
- Useful contrasts: December-related, late autumn, midwinter.
- Usage evidence: Today is June 18th and it is Muiriel's birthday!
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 the month following May and preceding July wordnet
Verb
- 1 To rush. Southern-US, dated, slang
Proper Noun
- 1 The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July, containing the northern solstice.
"Holonyms: calendar year; year"
- 2 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.
"For quotations using this term, see Citations:June."
- 3 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.
"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'.)"
Synonyms
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Example
"Today is June 18th and it is Muiriel's birthday!"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "june"?
Common synonyms include: calendar month, early summer month, early-summer, forename, given name, june-based.
How do you use "june" in a sentence?
Today is June 18th and it is Muiriel's birthday!
How do you pronounce "june"?
Pronounced /d͡ʒuːn/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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”).
Etymology 2
Short for junior.