- cal|en|dar
- cal|en|dar «KAL uhn duhr», noun, adjective, verb.–n.1. a table showing the months, weeks, and days of the year. A calendar shows the day of the week on which each day of the month falls. »
The calendar shows that Christmas will fall on a Tuesday.
2. a system by which the beginning, length, and divisions of the year are fixed: »The Julian calendar was established during the reign of Julius Caesar. The calendar, or system of keeping account of time over long intervals, is in most nations involved with the celebration of religious festivals (John Charles Duncan).
3. a list or schedule; record; register: »The judge proceeded to hear the next case on the calendar.
4. a schedule of the order in which bills are considered on the floor of a legislative body.5. British. a university or college catalogue, including a list of lectures, examinations, and special events or exercises.6. a table, arranged chronologically, showing the days dedicated to canonized saints, feasts, vigils, and the like; ecclesiastical calendar: »Though priests may of course conduct rites and ceremonies of a relatively private nature, they are most often in charge of an established calendar of rituals (Beals and Hoijer).
7. Obsolete, Figurative. a guide; directory.–adj.1. of or by the calendar: »a calendar holiday, a person's calendar age.
2. of the calendar year: »Calendar 1976 is the date of the United States bicentennial.
–v.t.to enter in a calendar or list; register.╂[< Anglo-French calender, learned borrowing from Latin calendārium account book < calendae calends (the day bills were due)]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
