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# monthly

«monthly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Happening, done or paid once every month** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (monthly); adverb (monthly); noun (a monthly, monthlies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Happening, done or paid once every month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monthly/#m1)

2) Measured over one month (monthly rainfall). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monthly/#m2)

3) (noun) A magazine that comes out once a month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monthly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths problems: monthly payments, monthly pocket money; to get a yearly total, multiply by 12. In science: monthly rainfall charts. In everyday life: monthly bills, a monthly magazine. Phrases: monthly payment, monthly meeting, paid monthly.

### examples

- I get my pocket money monthly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monthly/#x1)
- The club has a monthly meeting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monthly/#x2)
- Look at the monthly rainfall in the bar chart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monthly/#x3)
- We pay for the gym monthly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monthly/#x4)
- Mum reads a monthly cooking magazine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monthly/#x5)
- If the monthly cost is 15 dollars, the cost for a year is 15 × 12 = 180 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monthly/#x6)
- In the window stood a bush bearing monthly roses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monthly/#x7)

### note

Same form as adjective and adverb: "a monthly bill" and "paid monthly". For numbers: a year has 12 months, so yearly = monthly × 12; a month is about 4 weeks, but not exactly (most months are a little more than 4 weeks).

### In the corpora

- [A mortgage is a very big bank loan to buy a house, paid back monthly for 25 years or more with interest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/16/)
- ["That time of the month" means a woman's monthly period.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/20/)
- [Small monthly subscriptions add up to big amounts over a year, so it is worth checking and cancelling unused ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/18-mum-s-card-in-app-buys-and-subscriptions-that-renew/11/)
- [Payday is the day pay arrives; many families paid monthly have to make money last until the next payday.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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