Meanings
plural calendar months
- The period of duration from the first date of one month to the last date of the same month, which can thus vary from 28 to 31 days in length.
1 more example
In Calcutta, season tickets are issued only for the calendar month, with a different colour for each month, so that this problem does not arise. The merest whisper of an idea to change Bombay to the Calcutta system brought such a howl of protest in the Press, that it was never seriously contemplated.
1953 November, 'Erca', “Ticket Frauds in the East”, in Railway Magazine, page 779
Synonyms & antonyms
nounone of the twelve divisions of the calendar year
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 曆月 /历月
- 曆月 /历月 (lìyuè)period of duration
Finnish kalenterikuukausi
- kalenterikuukausiperiod of duration
French mois calendaire
- mois calendaireperiod of duration
German Kalendermonat
- Kalendermonatperiod of duration
Hungarian naptári hónap
- naptári hónapperiod of duration
Romanian lună calendaristică
- lună calendaristicăperiod of duration
Russian календа́рный ме́сяц
- календа́рный ме́сяц (kalendárnyj mésjac)period of duration
Spanish mes natural
- mes naturalperiod of duration
Swedish kalendermånad
- kalendermånadperiod of duration
Cite this entry
calendar month. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calendar%20month
“calendar month.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calendar%20month. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “calendar month,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calendar%20month.
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