Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The fourth month of the year, containing thirty days.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The fourth month of the year.
  • noun Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc.
  • noun one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.

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  • proper noun The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, following March and preceding May. Abbreviation: Apr or Apr.
  • proper noun A female given name for somebody born in April; used since early 20th century.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the month following March and preceding May

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Latin aprīlis.]

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From Middle English apprile, re-Latinized from aueril, from Old French avrill, from Latin aprīlis ("of the month of the goddess Venus"), perhaps based on Etruscan Apru, from Ancient Greek Αφροδίτη (Afrodíte, "Venus").

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  • April comes along singing, and stands outside and out of sight to finish her song.] _April.

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  • April, without entering the cottage, hangs over the hungry nestlings watching them.] _April.

    Poems Christina Georgina Rossetti 1862

  • IV. iii.41 (352,6) To the April day again] That is, _to the wedding day_, called by the poet, satirically, _April day_, or _fool's day_.

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  • The cancellation of an invitation to speak to a legitimate campus group at Wyoming in April is a case in point.

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  • The cancellation of an invitation to speak to a legitimate campus group at Wyoming in April is a case in point.

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  • Looking at the success rate of Senate predictions made in April is a sobering experience.

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  • The open streams API launched in April is a significant example.

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  • Consumer prices rose 2.8 percent in April from a year earlier, the fastest pace in 18 months, and property prices jumped 12.8 percent, the statistics bureau said in statements today.

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