Octobername/ɒkˈtəʊ.bə/

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  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.
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  rareA 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, [...]

Octobernoun/ɒkˈtəʊ.bə/

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  historicalA 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.

Octoberverb/ɒkˈtəʊ.bə/

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