Definition of "calends" []

• The day of the new moon and the first day of the month in the ancient Roman calendar. (noun)

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• "As I have heard nothing of you since the Assyrian calends, which is much longer ago than the Greek, you may perhaps have died in"
• "“The appellation of Bissextile, which marks the inauspicious year, is derived from the repetition of the sixth day of the calends of March.”"
• "(Let that be a warning to all of you who keep putting off will making till the Greek calends.)"