october

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, [...]

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.

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