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Definition of "calendar" []
- Any of various systems of reckoning time in which the beginning, length, and divisions of a year are defined. (noun)
- A table showing the months, weeks, and days in at least one specific year. (noun)
- A schedule of events. (noun)
- An ordered list of matters to be considered: a calendar of court cases; the bills on a legislative calendar. (noun)
- Chiefly British A catalog of a university. (noun)
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Use "calendar" in a sentence
- "V. ii.114 (330,6) the card or calendar of gentry] The general preceptor of elegance; the _card_ by which a gentleman is to direct his course; the _calendar_ by which he is to choose his time, that what he does may be both excellent and seasonable."
- "The economic calendar is short for Thursday and the last of the week as there are no scheduled releases for Friday."
- "Apparently her grasp of the calendar is as weak as her grasp on economics."
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