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DAY OF THE MONTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does day of the month mean? 

DAY OF THE MONTH (noun)
  The noun DAY OF THE MONTH has 1 sense:

1. the specified day of the monthplay

  Familiarity information: DAY OF THE MONTH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DAY OF THE MONTH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The specified day of the month

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

date; day of the month

Context example:

what is the date today?

Hypernyms ("day of the month" is a kind of...):

24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "day of the month"):

due date; maturity; maturity date (the date on which an obligation must be repaid)

birthday; natal day (the date on which a person was born)

Instance hyponyms:

6 June 1944; D-day (date of the Allied landing in France, World War II)


 Context examples 


The hardest day of the month will be November 24, when Mars will oppose Uranus.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Precisely such had the paragraph originally stood from the printer's hands; but Sir Walter had improved it by adding, for the information of himself and his family, these words, after the date of Mary's birth— Married, December 16, 1810, Charles, son and heir of Charles Musgrove, Esq. of Uppercross, in the county of Somerset, and by inserting most accurately the day of the month on which he had lost his wife.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my several voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid readers to adjust it as they please.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Before you arrive at the full moon, you have one outstanding day earlier, Friday, November 8, which has my vote for the best day of the month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She could not think of much else on the 29th of September; and she had this sympathetic touch in the evening from Mary, who, on having occasion to note down the day of the month, exclaimed, Dear me, is not this the day the Crofts were to come to Kellynch?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This same day of the month, March 9, is notable for a completely different reason—Mercury will turn direct, having been retrograde since February 16 (although you felt the pull backward as much as two weeks before that date).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you are about to sign a contract, and your lawyer says it’s ready to sign, do so on your luckiest day of the month—March 11—when the Sun (your ruling star) and Jupiter will align, linking work assignments to generous fees to you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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