june

present singular third person junes · participle present juning · participle past juned · past juned

1. Southern USdatedslangTo rush.

plural Junes · alternative abbreviation Jun · alternative abbreviation Jun. · alternative abbreviation JUN

1. The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July, containing the northern solstice.

   this glad June day

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   Holonyms: calendar year; year

   'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

   Direct investment liabilities, a measure of FDI reflected in a country’s balance of payments, fell to just $4.9 billion in the April to June months, down 87% from a year earlier, according to data published by SAFE last month. That was the lowest amount in any quarter since records began in 1998.

   2023 September 19, Laura He, “China woos Tesla, JP Morgan and other Western companies as foreign investment slumps”, in CNN Business

   Synonyms: Sixth Month

2. A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English], often for a girl born in June, used since the end of the 19th century.

   Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McFarland, 1721 Nichol avenue, girl, named June Irene.

   1919 July 11, “Births, Anderson and Vicinity”, in The Anderson Herald, volume 91, number 307, Anderson, Ind., →OCLC, page 10, column 3

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   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'.)

   2002, Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 29

1. 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.