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monthly

adj
/ˈmʌnθli/

Etymology

From month + -ly (adjectival suffix), perhaps via Middle English *monethly (attested only adverbially), from Old English mōnaþlīċ (“monthly”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþlīk, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþlīkaz (“monthly”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian moundelk (“monthly”), German monatlich (“monthly”), Danish månedlig (“monthly”), Swedish månatlig (“monthly”), Norwegian Bokmål månedlig (“monthly”), Icelandic mánaðarlegur (“monthly”).

  1. inherited from *mēnōþlīkaz✻ — “monthly”
  2. inherited from *mānōþlīk✻
  3. inherited from mōnaþlīċ — “monthly”
  4. inherited from *monethly✻

Definitions

  1. Occurring every month.

    • It's time give the dog its monthly bath.

  2. Every month.

    • Rent must be paid monthly.

  3. A publication that is published once a month.

    • Of the 10 monthlies with the worst declines in January, four were Condé Nast magazines: Wired, Architectural Digest, Vogue and Lucky.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The menstrual period.

      • Katherine assumed she was having her monthly. She could recall times when her own monthly was so intense that it showed on her face.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at monthly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at monthly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at monthly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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