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# january

«january» in Mova's school dictionary: **the first month of the year, with 31 days, between…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

proper noun (January — always with a capital J)

### meaning for a pupil

January is the first month of the year, with 31 days, between December and February. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/january/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life January starts the new year; it is winter in the northern hemisphere (UK, USA, Canada, Ireland) but summer in Australia and New Zealand, when children have long summer holidays. Phrases: «in January», «New Year's Day in January», «January sales».

### examples

- January has 31 days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/january/#x1)
- It often snows in January in Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/january/#x2)
- In Australia, January is summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/january/#x3)
- My birthday is in January. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/january/#x4)
- The January sales start after Christmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/january/#x5)
- We go back to school in January. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/january/#x6)
- January is named after the Roman god Janus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/january/#x7)
- Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/january/#x8)

### note

Always a capital J: January, not january. Abbreviation: Jan. Maths: January has 31 days, so it is about 4 weeks and 3 days.

### In the corpora

- [Many people are paid early in December, before Christmas, so January feels very long with the money already spent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/7/)
- ["xīnnián kuàilè" means Happy New Year and is said to everyone at Chinese New Year and also on 1 January.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/8/)
- [Australia Day on 26 January marks the arrival of the First Fleet, and many Aboriginal people call it Invasion Day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/8/)
- [Winter isn't cold because the Sun is far away: the Earth is actually closest to the Sun in early January!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts/4/)
- [Seasons are not caused by distance from the Sun; the Earth is nearest to the Sun in January.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «january» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/january/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.