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

  • noun The third month of the year in the Jewish calendar.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The third month of the Jewish sacred year and the ninth of the civil year, corresponding to the latter part of May and part of June.

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

  • noun The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun Judaism The ninth month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar, after Iyar and before Tammuz.

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

  • noun the ninth month of the civil year; the third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in May and June)

Etymologies

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

[Hebrew sîwān, from Akkadian simānu, a month name, from simānu, season, time; see wsm in Semitic roots.]

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