July

plural Julies · plural Julys · alternative abbreviation Jul · alternative abbreviation Jul. · alternative abbreviation JUL

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

   Holonyms: calendar year; year

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   From July 2025, the income assessment method for young couples buying BTO flats will be tweaked.

   2025 March 28, Ryan J, “HDB Just Made It Easier For Young Couples To Buy Flats: But Not Everyone Is Happy”, in STACKED

   Synonyms: Seventh Month

2. uncommonA female given name from English.

   In Prairie County, Arkansas, in March 1863, a black woman named July, born free in Tennessee but under indenture to a white man until she turned twenty-one, was brought before a circuit court when she was just short of reaching her age of freedom.

   2003, William C. Davis, Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America, →ISBN, page 153

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   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.

   2004, Eric Arnesen, The Human Tradition in American Labor History, →ISBN, page 73

plural Julys

1. A surname from French.