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October

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Etymology

    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.

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    October (plural Octobers)

    2. The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November.
      Alternative forms: Oct, Oct., OCT, 8ber, 10
      Synonym: (Quakerism) Tenth Month
      Holonyms: calendar year; year
      Comeronyms: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November, December
      • 2025 July 18, Timothy McLaughlin, “A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border. The Kachin Independence Organization fought for decades in obscurity. Now it's supplying essential minerals to manufacturers around the world”, in Bloomberg Businessweek‎, archived from the original on 18 July 2025:
        By October it was advancing steadily toward Pangwa, encountering meager resistance.
    3. (rare) A female given name transferred from the month name.
      • 2002 January, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 35, number 4, page 138:
        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 ...
      • 2009, C.S. Graham, The Archangel Project, →ISBN, page 31:
        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, [...]

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    Noun

    October (uncountable)

    1. (historical) A type of ale traditionally brewed in October. [from 18th c.]
      • 1716 March 21 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], The Drummer; or, The Haunted House. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1716 (indicated as 1715), →OCLC, Act V, page 46:
        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?
      • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
        [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.
      • 1898, Stanley John Weyman, “III. Tutor and Pupils”, in The Castle Inn:
        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 Common Room port—and seeing the casement brilliantly lighted, smiled a trifle contemptuously.

    Verb

    October (third-person singular simple present Octobers, present participle Octobering, simple past and past participle Octobered)

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

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    Gregorian calendar monthsedit

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