Mayname詞源 1/meɪ/

• 1

  The fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, following April and preceding June.

  • Holonyms: calendar year; year
  • All in the merry month of May, / When green leaves they was springing, / This young man on his death-bed lay, / For the love of Barbara Allen.
• 2

  A female given name, usually pet name for Mary and Margaret, reinforced by the month and plant meaning.

  • […] I will not send Owen's Lily May to the almshouse." "Lily―what?" demanded Mrs. Morley rather sharply, for she was half provoked with what she mentally called Amy's whim of keeping the outcast child when she might send it to the asylum. "Lily May," said Amy, smiling. "Her name is Mary, and we called her first Little Mary, and then Little May. But Owen calls her Lily May."
  • Their parents named them June and May because their birthdays occurred in those months. […] May was like the time of year in which she had been born, changeable, chilly and warm by turns, sullen yet able to know and show loveliness that couldn't last.
• 3

  A surname from Middle English.

• 4

  A surname from Middle English.

• 5

  A number of places in the United States:

• 6

  A number of places in the United States:

• 7

  A number of places in the United States:

• 8

  A number of places in the United States:

Mayname詞源 2

• 1

  A surname.

mayverb詞源 1/meɪ/

• 1

  obsoleteTo be strong; to have power (over).

• 2

  obsoleteTo be able; can.

  • But many times[…]we give way to passions we may resist and will not.
• 3

  To be able to go.

  • O weary night, O long and tedious night, Abate thy houres, shine comforts from the East, That I may backe to Athens by day-light […].
• 4

  To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.

  • you may smoke outside
  • may I sit there?
• 5

  Granting the admissibility of a supposition, in a way that can be semantically either subjunctive or indicative.

  • he may be lying
  • Schrödinger's cat may or may not be in the box.
• 6

  Granting the admissibility of a supposition, in a way that can be semantically either subjunctive or indicative.

  • You may be my boss, but that doesn't mean you can insult me.
  • A: Sigh. I'm bummed that Stephen Hawking died. B: Well, he may have died, but he's still alive in our hearts. [This speaker does not doubt that Stephen has died; nonetheless, the verb inflection is not different.]
• 7

  Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).

  • may you win;  may the weather be sunny;  long may your reign last
  • Let us pray that peace may soon return to our war-torn homeland.
• 8

  Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.

  • How old may Phillis be, you ask, / Whose Beauty thus all Hearts engages.

maynoun詞源 2/meɪ/

• 1

  The hawthorn bush or its blossoms.

  • The fire from Lindfield was coming down the grassy hillside to the right between the hedges of may.

mayverb詞源 2/meɪ/

• 1

  To gather may, or flowers in general.

  • Soo it befelle in the moneth of May / quene Gueneuer called vnto her knyȝtes of the table round / and she gafe them warnynge that erly vpon the morowe she wold ryde on mayeng in to woodes & feldes besyde westmynstre. "So it befell in the month of May, Queen Guenever called unto her knights of the Table Round; and she gave them warning that early upon the morrow she would ride a-Maying into woods and fields beside Westminster."
  • In valleys green and still / Where lovers wander maying
• 2

  To celebrate May Day.

maynoun詞源 3/meɪ/

• 1

  archaicA maiden.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• May.