October

proper noun

1. 1

   The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November.

   Holonyms: calendar year; year

   By October it was advancing steadily toward Pangwa, encountering meager resistance.

2. 2

   rareA female given name transferred from the month name.

   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 ...

   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, [...]

noun

1. 1

   historicalA type of ale traditionally brewed in October.

   Sir, if I vvas vvorthy to adviſe you, I vvou'd have a Bottle of good October by me. Shall I ſet a Cup of old Stingo at your Elbovv?

   [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.

   Sir George, borne along in his chair, peered up at this well-known window--well-known, since in the Oxford of 1767 a man's rooms were furnished if he had tables and chairs, store of beef and October, an apple-pie and Common Room port—and seeing the casement brilliantly lighted, smiled a trifle contemptuously.

verb

1. 1

   historicalIn the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religious christening.

Forms

plural

Octobers

past tense

Octobered

past participle

Octobered

present participle

Octobering

third person singular

Octobers