Meanings
november1
- international standardsAlternative letter-case form of November from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
November2
plural Novembers · alternative abbreviation Nov · alternative abbreviation Nov. · alternative abbreviation NOV · alternative obsolete Novembre
- The eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following October and preceding December.
Holonyms: calendar year; year
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Red o'er the forest glows the setting sun, / The line of yellow light dies fast away / That crown'd the eastern copse, and chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.
1827, [John Keble], “Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 85This is an annotated wordlist of the Ayere language, spoken in Ayere village in Kwara State, Nigeria. The wordlist was written by Mr. E.O. Olumorin for the West African Languages Survey in November 1961.
2007 February 5, Roger Blench, “The Ayere and Ahan languages of Central Nigeria and their affinities”, in rogerblench.info, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2022, page 1Stadia, Google’s cloud gaming service, launched in November 2019, with some likening it to the Netflix (NFLX) of video games.
2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN BusinessAn LMPD Board Notice of Hearing states part of Cosgrove’s hearings took place in November. The second half of his hearing is set to begin Monday and end Wednesday.
2021 December 13, Amir Vera, “Louisville detective who fatally shot Breonna Taylor is appealing his termination from the police department”, in CNNSynonyms: Eleventh Month
- A female given name.
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following October and preceding December.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁néwn̥
- Proto-Italic*nown̥
- Latindeceminflu.
- Latinnovem
- LatinNovember
- Latinnovember
- Old Frenchnovembre
- Middle EnglishNovembre
- EnglishNovember
From Middle English Novembre, from Old French novembre, from Latin November (“ninth month”), from Latin novem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix. November was the ninth month in the Roman calendar. Displaced native Old English blōtmōnaþ (literally “sacrifice month”), so called because the Anglo-Saxons, when they were pagans, would sacrifice in this month before the winter set in.
More words from Middle English, Old French, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans November
- Novembereleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Arabic نُوفِمْبِر, نُوفَمْبِر
- نُوفِمْبِر (nufimbir)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
- نُوفَمْبِر (nufambir)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
- نُوفَمْبَر (nufambar)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
- تِشْرِين الثَّانِِي (tišrīn aṯ-ṯāniī)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Basque azaro
- azaroeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Bengali নভেম্বর
- নভেম্বর (nobhembor)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Bulgarian ное́мври
- ное́мври (noémvri)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Catalan novembre
- novembreeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Chinese Cantonese 十一月
- 十一月 (sap⁶ jat¹ jyut⁶)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Chinese Mandarin 十一月
- 十一月 (shíyīyuè)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Czech listopad
- listopadeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Danish november
- novembereleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Dutch november
- novembereleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Esperanto novembro, Novembro
- novembroeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
- Novembroeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Estonian november
- novembereleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Finnish marraskuu
- marraskuueleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
French novembre
- novembreeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
German November, Nebelung
- Novembereleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
- Nebelungeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Greek Νοέμβριος, Νοέμβρης
- Νοέμβριος (Noémvrios)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
- Νοέμβρης (Noémvris)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Hawaiian Nowemapa
- Nowemapaeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Hebrew נוֹבֶמְבֶּר
- נוֹבֶמְבֶּר (novémber)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Hindi नवम्बर
- नवम्बर (navambar)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Hungarian november
- novembereleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Icelandic nóvember, nóvembermánuður
- nóvembereleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
- nóvembermánuðureleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Indonesian November
- Novembereleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Irish Samhain, Mí na Samhna
- Samhaineleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
- Mí na Samhnaeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Italian novembre
- novembreeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Japanese 十一月, 霜月
- 十一月 (jūichigatsu)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
- 霜月 (shimotsuki)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Korean 십일월
- 십일월 (sibirwol)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Latin November
- Novembereleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Latvian novembris
- novembriseleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Lithuanian lapkritis
- lapkritiseleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Malay november
- novembereleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Māori Noema
- Noemaeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Norwegian Bokmål november
- novembereleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Polish listopad
- listopadeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Portuguese novembro
- novembroeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Punjabi ਨਵੰਬਰ
- ਨਵੰਬਰ (navambar)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Romanian noiembrie, brumar
- noiembrieeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
- brumareleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Russian ноя́брь
- ноя́брь (nojábrʹ)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Scottish Gaelic an t-Samhain
- an t-Samhaineleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Slovak november
- novembereleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Spanish noviembre
- noviembreeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Swahili Novemba
- Novembaeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Swedish november
- novembereleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Tagalog Nobyembre
- Nobyembreeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Thai พฤศจิกายน
- พฤศจิกายน (prʉ́t-sà-jì-gaa-yon)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Turkish kasım, teşrinisani
- kasımeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
- teşrinisanieleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
- bölen ayıeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Ukrainian листопа́д
- листопа́д (lystopád)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Urdu نَوَمْبَر
- نَوَمْبَر (navambar)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Vietnamese tháng mười một
- tháng mười mộteleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Welsh Tachwedd
- Tachweddeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Yiddish נאָוועמבער
- נאָוועמבער (november)eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Zulu uLwezi, uNovemba
- uLwezieleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
- uNovembaeleventh month of the Gregorian calendar
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with november
All rhymes →Cite this entry
november. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/november
“november.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/november. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “november,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/november.
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