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# month

«month» in Mova's school dictionary: **one of the twelve parts of a year, like March or July** — 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

noun (month, months)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A month is one of the twelve parts of a year, like March or July. A year has 12 months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/month/#m1)

2) A month has about 30 days, or about 4 weeks; some have 31 days, and February has 28 or 29. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/month/#m2)

3) A month can also mean any time of about four weeks: «in a month». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/month/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a unit of time; problems give money saved, pages read or rent paid each month, and change months into years or weeks; in everyday life calendars, birthdays and school terms; in science the Moon goes round the Earth in about a month; phrases «a month ago», «once a month», «month by month», «next month»

### examples

- She saves 20 dollars every month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/month/#x1)
- There are 12 months in a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/month/#x2)
- The rent is 500 dollars a month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/month/#x3)
- How much does he earn in 3 months? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/month/#x4)
- My birthday is in the month of May. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/month/#x5)
- The puppy is 3 months old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/month/#x6)
- We go to the library once a month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/month/#x7)
- It takes about a month for the Moon to go round the Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/month/#x8)
- A month passed; a year passed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/month/#x9)

### note

«Each month», «a month», «per month» mark a rate: total = rate × number of months. 12 months = 1 year. Trap: months have 28 to 31 days, so do not use exactly 4 weeks unless the problem says so. Names of months start with a capital letter. «Monthly» means once a month.

### In the corpora

- [Payday is the day pay arrives in the bank, often once a month, so money is usually lowest just before it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/6/)
- [Living in a home costs money every single month, even when nobody buys anything new.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/0/)
- [It means grown-ups are steering the money so it lasts the whole month.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/7/)
- [That night she opens her banking app and groans: "The app says we've spent eighty dollars on takeaways this month."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/7/)
- [A subscription keeps taking money every month until it is cancelled, and free trials often turn into payments.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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