October
The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November.
Proper noun
- 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. - 2025 July 18, Timothy McLaughlin, “A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border. The Kachin Independence...
Synonyms: Tenth Month
Related: Oct Oct. OCT 8ber mul:10 January February March April May June July August September November December
- 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 ... - 2002 January, Cincinnati Magazine, volume...
- 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,...
Origin
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French octobre, from Latin Octōber (“eighth month”), from Latin octō (“eight”), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw (“twice four”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar.
Forms
Derived
6th of October Goretober humming October Inktober Kinktober Locktober mid-October October 7 October 8th Jew October beer October-bird October effect Octoberfest Octoberish Octoberist Octobrist Octoberly October Revolution October surprise October War Octobery Octobral Red October Rocktober
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? - 1716 March 21 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], The Drummer;...
- [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. - 1751,...
- 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, an apple-pie and...
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Verb
- In the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religious christening.