birthmonth

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A form of birth month — The month in which someone is born.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounbirthmonth (plural birthmonths)

plural birthmonths

  1. alternativeAlternative form of birth month.

    License expires end of licensee’s birthmonth.

    1975, Warren L. Cruikshank, John D. Burke, Real Estate Sales and Brokerage: Preparing for the Licensing Exams, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 178, column 2
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    A person is said to have died on his birthmonth if the month of his death is the same as the month of his birth. Accordingly, if a person was born on March 1, 1797, and died on March 31, 1850, he died on his birthmonth; […]

    1973 December, David P. Phillips, Kenneth A. Feldman, “A Dip in Deaths Before Ceremonial Occasions: Some New Relationships Between Social Integration and Mortality”, in James F[ranklin] Short, Jr., editor, American Sociological Review, volume 38, number 6, Albany, N.Y.: American Sociological Association, →ISSN, page 679, columns 1–2

    The flowers are chrysanthemums, totem flowers of my birthmonth.

    1991 July, James Alan Gardner, “Shadow Album”, in Kim Mohan, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 66, number 3 (whole 560), Lake Geneva, Wis.: TSR, Inc., →ISSN, page 28, column 2

    Choose from our selection of classic handcrafted Mother’s Rings set with lustrous stones to mark the birthmonth of each child.

    1993 November 26, Smith & Neil Jewelers, “Mother’s Rings® Are Made For… Memories”, in Paul R. Lopes, editor, The Wanderer, volume 2, number 46, Mattapoisett, Mass., page 65

    July, his [Julius Caesar’s] birthmonth, is named in his honor.

    1996, Daniel D. Pearlman, Faun Bernbach Evans, Raymond H. Clines, Guide to Rapid Revision Workbook, 3rd edition, Boston, Mass.: Allyn & Bacon, →ISBN, page 161

    Stating any assumptions that you make find an expression for the probability that in a group of n people at least two of them share the same birthmonth. Deduce the smallest n for which the group is more likely than not to include at least two people sharing the same birthmonth.

    [1998?], Gwyn Evans, John Reynolds, Statistics Module S1 (Modular Mathematics), [Cardiff]: RND Publications Ltd, →ISBN, page 16
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