OCTOBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does October mean? 

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

1. the month following September and preceding November

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCTOBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following September and preceding November

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Oct; October

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

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "October"):

Columbus Day; Discovery Day; October 12 (a legal holiday commemorating the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus)

October 24; United Nations Day (a day for celebrating the founding of the United Nations)

mid-October (the middle part of October)

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

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)

 Context examples 

Mercury was preparing to retrograde last month, on October 31, and that did not help.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The game is expected to be launched at the end of October.

(Brazilian professor creates mobile game that combines fun with mathematics, Agência Brasil)

Environment Minister Sarney Filho will uphold that when the International Whaling Commission votes on the issue on 24 October in Slovenia.

(Brazil to support South Atlantic whale sanctuary bid, Agência BRASIL)

This was the smallest October extent since records began in 1979.

(Last month tied as 3rd warmest October on record for the globe, NOAA)

The vessel is expected to reach the continent on October 26.

(Brazil ship off to Antarctica for research support, Agência Brasil)

We had arrived in England at the beginning of October, and it was now February.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The new observations, conducted from April through October 2016, show an increase in the amount of ice on the crater wall.

(NASA Dawn Reveals Recent Changes in Ceres' Surface, NASA)

On 19 October 2017, the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai`i picked up a faint point of light moving across the sky.

(ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before, ESO)

`Oumuamua — the first interstellar object discovered within our Solar System — has been the subject of intense scrutiny since its discovery in October 2017.

(ESO’s VLT Sees `Oumuamua Getting a Boost, ESO)

"The Shame of the Sun" was published in October.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)