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birth month

noun

Etymology

From birth + month by analogy with birthday.

  1. inherited from *mḗh₁n̥s✻ — “moon, month”
  2. inherited from *mēnōþs✻ — “month”
  3. inherited from *mānōþ✻
  4. inherited from mōnaþ
  5. inherited from moneth
  6. compounded as birth month — “birth + month”

Definitions

  1. The month in which someone is born.

    • The House of Representatives took time out today for a thirty-minute celebration of the birth month of Susan B. Anthony, crusader for women’s rights.
    • Factors like birth order and birth month play a small role, at best, in the likelihood of reaching advanced age, and are overwhelmed by others.
    • Although, as with many facts surrounding my birth month, there is some dispute — some historians say Caesar gave February 29 days — most believe his calendar preserved a 28-day February (with 29 days only in a leap year).

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA