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New Year's Day

the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New year's or new year.

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One of intermediate order between angels and men.

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The first month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

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Annates n. pl. · 78% connection

The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form…

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Annual adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.

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Annually adverb · 78% connection

Yearly; year by year.

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Aquarius noun · 78% connection

The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which p…

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Ascians n. pl. · 78% connection

Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a…

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Beet noun · 78% connection

A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.

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Bissextile noun · 78% connection

Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5…

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Brumaire noun · 78% connection

The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiair…

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Calendar noun · 78% connection

An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presente…

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Calendarial adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.

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Calends n. pl. · 78% connection

The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar.

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Caulocarpous adjective · 78% connection

Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs.

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Develop verb · 78% connection

To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly org…

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Ember adjective · 78% connection

Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.

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Embolismical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year, i. e., the year in which there is intercalation.

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Encalendar verb · 78% connection

To register in a calendar; to calendar.

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Epact noun · 78% connection

The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of t…

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Epiphany noun · 78% connection

A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the…

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