Monthly
['mʌnθlɪ] or ['mʌnθli]
Definition
(noun.) a periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year).
(adj.) of or occurring or payable every month; 'monthly payments'; 'the monthly newsletter' .
(adv.) occurring once a month; 'they meet monthly'.
Editor: Timmy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.
(a.) Done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month, or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly installment; a monthly magazine.
(n.) A publication which appears regularly once a month.
(adv.) Once a month; in every month; as, the moon changes monthly.
(adv.) As if under the influence of the moon; in the manner of a lunatic.
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Examples
- The broad problem which he set himself was to provide handsome and practically indestructible detached houses, which could be taken by wage-earners at very moderate monthly rentals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Brighton, and a whole campful of soldiers, to us, who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I find this in Père Boschovich's account of it, as abridged in the Monthly Review for December, 1750. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It is a part of the monthly rites of Issus, he replied, in which black men wash the sins from their souls in the blood of men from the outer world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But if you have run into debt, you must suffer the consequences, and put aside your monthly income till your bills are paid. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Yesterday the monthly rites of Issus were held, replied Yersted, and I saw her then sitting in her accustomed place at the foot of Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Such a fighter as you, for example, would render fine sport in the monthly rites of the temple. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There was some law, it seems, that made a monthly renter liable for a year. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Till now she had done well, been prudent and exact, kept her little account books neatly, and showed them to him monthly without fear. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- J'ai menti plusieurs fois, formed an item of every girl's and woman's monthly confession: the priest heard unshocked, and absolved unreluctant. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Another edition was published simultaneously by Mr. Cadell in monthly volumes at 4s. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This idea was strengthened shortly afterward when the Western Union raised the monthly rental of the stock tickers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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