July
proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//d͡ʒʊˈlaɪ//
- United Kingdom//d͡ʒuˈlaɪ//
- United Kingdom//d͡ʒəˈlaɪ//
- United States//d͡ʒəˈlaɪ//
- United States//d͡ʒuˈlaɪ//
The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August.
proper noun
- 1
The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August.
Holonyms: calendar year; year
From July 2025, the income assessment method for young couples buying BTO flats will be tweaked.
- 2
A female given name from English.
By 1880, in his early to middle twenties, he had married a literate woman named July, who would be his first of three wives. Riley continued to live close to his parents, James and Frances, whose house was just three doors down and who still had four of their own children living with them in addition to a grandson.
In Prairie County, Arkansas, in March 1863, a black woman named July, born free in Tennessee but under indenture to a white man until she turned twenty-one, was brought before a circuit court when she was just short of reaching her age of freedom.
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin Iūlius Latin iūlius Old French jule Anglo-Norman juliebor. Middle English Julie English July From Middle English Julie, julye, iulius, from Anglo-Norman julie, from Old French jule, juil, from Latin iūlius (Gaius Julius Caesar's month), perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios, "descended from Jove".
proper noun
- 1
A surname from French.
Etymology
A translation of the French surname Juillet.
Forms
- plural
- Julies, Julys
July · The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August.
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