CANICULE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does canicule mean? 

• CANICULE (noun)
  The noun CANICULE has 1 sense:

1. the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity

  Familiarity information: CANICULE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANICULE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

canicular days; canicule; dog days

Hypernyms ("canicule" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Holonyms ("canicule" is a part of...):

summer; summertime (the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox)

Derivation:

canicular (relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star))

canicular (of or relating to the dog days of summer)