See also: october
English
Alternative forms
- Octobre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French octobre, from Latin octōber (“eighth month”), from Latin octō (“eight”), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw (“twice four”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊbə(ɹ)
Proper noun
October (plural Octobers)
- The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November. Abbreviation: Oct.
- (rare) A female given name from English.
- 2002 January, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 35, number 4, page 138:
- The other one [book] I just read is October Suite by Maxine Clair (Random House, $23.95). It's about a woman named October. She's a young black schoolteacher in the 1950s ...
- 2009, C.S. Graham, The Archangel Project, →ISBN, page 31:
- From somewhere in the distance came the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle's siren. Lance flipped open his phone. “Get me the address of a woman named October Guinness . . . That's right, October,” he said again, [...]
Derived terms
Descendants
- Bislama: oktoba
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Oktoeba
- Tok Pisin: Oktoba
- → Bengali: অক্টোবর (okṭōbor)
- → Burmese: အောက်တိုဘာ (auktuibha)
- → Chichewa: Okutobala
- → Dari: اکتوبر (oktôbar)(Please either change this template to {{desc}} or insert a ====Descendants==== section in اکتوبر#Persian)
- → Hausa: Oktoba
- → Hawaiian: ʻOkakopa
- → Hindi: अक्टूबर (akṭūbar), अक्तूबर (aktūbar)
- → Malay: Oktober
- → Maori: Oketopa
- → Marshallese: Oktoba
- → Niuean: Okitopa
- → Serer: Oktoba
- → Shughni: اکتوبر (oktobar)
- → Swahili: Oktoba
- → Tokelauan: Oketopa
- → Tongan: ʻOkatopa
- → Wallisian: ʻOkitopa
- → Xamtanga: Oktoobar
Translations
tenth month of the Gregorian calendar
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Noun
October (uncountable)
- (now historical) A type of ale traditionally brewed in October. [from 18th c.]
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- [T]he gate of a large chateau, of a most noble and venerable appearance […] induced them to alight and view the apartments, contrary to their first intention of drinking a glass of his October at the door.
Verb
October (third-person singular simple present Octobers, present participle Octobering, simple past and past participle Octobered)
- (historical, transitive) In the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religious christening.
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) Gregorian calendar month; January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December (Category: en:Gregorian calendar months)
Anagrams
Scots
Etymology
From Latin octōber (“of the eighth month”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
October
See also
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