october

UK /ɒkˈtəʊ.bə/ US /ɑkˈtoʊ.bəɹ/

name 2noun 1verb 1

Collocations

ADJ.

fine, good, greatest, last, new, young

Last October we drove through the countryside and saw the leaves changing color.

VERB + OCTOBER

account, beef, begins, born, bottle, crash, died, end

The stock market crash in October 1929 devastated millions of investors across America.

OCTOBER + NOUN

awoke, maxine, morning, sadako, she's, suite

She awoke in October to find frost covering the garden windows.

PREP.

in, in, into, on, with

We're planning to go hiking in October when the weather cools down.

Definitions

name

The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November.

Holonyms: calendar year; year

By October it was advancing steadily toward Pangwa, encountering meager resistance.

A female given name transferred from the month name.

The other one [book] I just read is October Suite by Maxine Clair (Random House, $23.95). It's about a woman named October. She's a young black schoolteacher in the 1950s ...

From somewhere in the distance came the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle's siren. Lance flipped open his phone. “Get me the address of a woman named October Guinness . . . That's right, October,” he said again, [...]

noun

A type of ale traditionally brewed in October.

Sir, if I vvas vvorthy to adviſe you, I vvou'd have a Bottle of good October by me. Shall I ſet a Cup of old Stingo at your Elbovv?

[T]he gate of a large chateau, of a most noble and venerable appearance […] induced them to alight and view the apartments, contrary to their first intention of drinking a glass of his October at the door.

verb

In the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religious christening.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the month following September and preceding November

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Holonyms: calendar year; year

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By October it was advancing steadily toward Pangwa, encountering meager resistance.

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The other one [book] I just read is October Suite by Maxine Clair (Random House, $23.95). It's about a woman named October. She's a young black schoolteacher in the 1950s ...

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Sir, if I vvas vvorthy to adviſe you, I vvou'd have a Bottle of good October by me. Shall I ſet a Cup of old Stingo at your Elbovv?

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Sir George, borne along in his chair, peered up at this well-known window--well-known, since in the Oxford of 1767 a man's rooms were furnished if he had tables and chairs, store of beef and October,

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, october is marked as rare, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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