calendar

Pronunciation: /ˈkæl.ən.də/

The English word “calendar” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.
A list of planned events.
An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.
An appointment book (US), appointment diary (UK)

verb

To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.
To enter or write in a calendar; to register.

Etymology

From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from kalō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium. Displaced native Old English rīmbōc and ġerīmbōc.

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