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June

//d͡ʒuːn// name, verb, slang

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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'.)"

Noun

1
the month following May and preceding July wordnet

Verb

1
To rush. Southern-US, dated, slang

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.

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