april

/ˈeɪ.pɹɪl/

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Collocations

ADJ.

dated, last, sunny, valid

The passport was dated April 2019 but expired last month.

VERB + APRIL

begins, end, message, put, runs, seeing, snows, starts

The school year runs through April, so we still have two months of classes left.

APRIL + NOUN

march, s

The April showers brought wildflowers blooming across the meadows.

PREP.

about, around, from, in, off, on, out, till

The flowers start blooming around April every year in our garden.

ADV.

namely

The conference was scheduled for April, namely the second week when most people could attend.

Definitions

name

The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, following March and preceding May.

Holonyms: calendar year; year

Oh, to be in England / Now that April’s there

A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English]; used since the early 20th century.

I'm April Hooper. That sounds silly, the April part, but my mother was English and she always said there was nothing prettier than an English April.

A surname.

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Synonyms

noun — the month following March and preceding May

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

April showers bring May flowers

The month of April, traditionally a rainy period, gives way to May, when flowers will bloom because of the water provided to them by the April rains.

Example Bank

Holonyms: calendar year; year

Wiktionary

Oh, to be in England / Now that April’s there

Wiktionary

The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally den

Wiktionary

Your technical manager arranged a meeting for 1:00 p.m. on April 6, but how about April 7, at 10:00 a.m.?

Tatoeba · #20167

Here is our answer to your fax message dated April 1st.

Tatoeba · #20181

School begins on April the tenth.

Tatoeba · #21519

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