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

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

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The first month of the Hebrew civil year, and the seventh of the ecclesiastical, answering to a part of our September and a part of October.

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

  • noun the first month of the civil year; the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in September and October)

Etymologies

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

[Hebrew tišrî, from Akkadian tašrītu, beginning, a month name, from šurrû, to begin; see šry in Semitic roots.]

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