November
proper nouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//nəʊˈvɛmbə//
- United Kingdom//nəˈvɛmbə//
- United States//noʊˈvɛmbɚ//
- //nəˈvɛmbə(r)//
The eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following October and preceding December.
proper noun
- 1
The eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following October and preceding December.
Holonyms: calendar year; year
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.
This 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.
Stadia, Google’s cloud gaming service, launched in November 2019, with some likening it to the Netflix (NFLX) of video games.
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A female given name.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ Proto-Italic *nown̥ Latin novem Latin November Latin november Old French novembrebor. Middle English Novembre English November 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.
Forms
- plural
- Novembers
November · The eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following October and preceding December.
novice · A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a…now · Present; current.nowadays · At the present time; in the current era.