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calendar
CIDE DICTIONARY
calendar, n. [OE. kalender, calender, fr. L. kalendarium an interest or account book (cf. F. calendrier, OF. calendier) fr. L. calendue, kalendae, calends. See Calends.].
- An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac. [1913 Webster]
- A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter. [1913 Webster]
- An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy. [1913 Webster]"Shepherds of people had need know the calendars of tempests of state." Bacon. [1913 Webster]
calendar, v. t.
To enter or write in a calendar; to register. Waterhouse. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
calendar, n. & v.
--n.
1 a system by which the beginning, length, and subdivisions of the year are fixed.
2 a chart or series of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a particular year, or giving special seasonal information.
3 a timetable or programme of appointments, special events, etc.
--v.tr. register or enter in a calendar or timetable etc.
--n.
1 a system by which the beginning, length, and subdivisions of the year are fixed.
2 a chart or series of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a particular year, or giving special seasonal information.
3 a timetable or programme of appointments, special events, etc.
--v.tr. register or enter in a calendar or timetable etc.
Idiom
calendar month (or year) see MONTH, YEAR.
Derivative
calendric adj. calendrical adj.
Etymology
ME f. AF calender, OF calendier f. L calendarium account-book (as CALENDS)
THESAURUS
calendar
Chinese calendar, Cotsworth calendar, Domesday Book, Gregorian calendar, Hindu calendar, Jewish calendar, Julian calendar, Muslim calendar, Revolutionary calendar, Roman calendar, account book, address book, adversaria, agenda, album, almanac, annals, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, astronomical almanac, astronomical calendar, atlas, batting order, beadroll, bill, bill of fare, blankbook, blotter, blueprint, book, budget, cadastre, calendar stone, calends, card, carte du jour, carve, casebook, cashbook, catalog, catalogue raisonne, census, census report, chalk, chalk up, check in, checklist, checkroll, chronicle, chronogram, chronologize, chronology, church calendar, city directory, classified catalog, clause, commonplace book, companion bills amendment, concordance, court calendar, cut, cyclopedia, daybook, desk calendar, diary, diatesseron, dictionary catalog, diptych, directory, docket, dragnet clause, dramatis personae, ecclesiastical calendar, enacting clause, encyclopedia, engagement book, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, enumerate, ephemeris, escalator clause, file, fill out, gazetteer, grave, harmony, head count, hold-up bill, honor roll, impanel, incise, index, inscribe, insert, intercalate, inventory, itemize, joker, jot down, journal, jury list, jury panel, keep score, ledger, line up, lineup, list, list of agenda, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, mark down, matriculate, memo book, memorandum book, memory book, menu, minute, motion, muster, muster roll, nose count, note, note down, notebook, omnibus bill, order of business, pad, perpetual calendar, petty cashbook, phone book, pigeonhole, place upon record, playbill, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, poll, polyglot, post, post up, privileged question, program, program of operation, programma, property roll, prospectus, protocol, proviso, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, question, questionnaire, record, record book, reduce to writing, reference book, register, returns, rider, roll, roll call, roster, rota, saving clause, schedule, score, scrapbook, scratch pad, scroll, set down, slate, source book, spiral notebook, studbook, table, tablet, tabulate, take down, tally, tape, tape-record, tax roll, telephone book, telephone directory, timetable, triptych, videotape, work of reference, workbook, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, writing tablet, yearbookROGET THESAURUS
calendar
Chronometry
N chronometry, horometry, horology, date, epoch, style, era, almanac, calendar, ephemeris, register, registry, chronicle, annals, journal, diary, chronogram, clock, wall clock, pendulum clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio, watch, wristwatch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch, atomic clock, digital clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock, chronometer, chronoscope, chronograph, repeater, timekeeper, timepiece, dial, sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra, ghurry, chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, timekeeper, annalist, calendar year, leap year, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, Chinese calendar, Jewish calendar, perpetual calendar, Farmer's almanac, fiscal year, chronological, chronometrical, chronogrammatical, cinquecento, quattrocento, trecento, o'clock.Record
N record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time.VB record, put on record, place on record, chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity, keep up the memory, commemorate, report, write, commit to writing, reduce to writing, put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white, put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down, note, minute, put on paper, take note, make a note, take minute, take memorandum, make a return, mark, sign, enter, book, post, post up, insert, make an entry of, mark off, tick off, register, enroll, inscroll, file, burn into memory, carve in stone.
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