Definitions

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

  • noun Any of various systems of reckoning time in which the beginning, length, and divisions of a year are defined, sometimes along with multiyear cycles.
  • noun A table showing the months, weeks, and days in at least one specific year.
  • noun A schedule of events.
  • noun An ordered list of matters to be considered.
  • noun Chiefly British A catalog of a university.
  • transitive verb To enter in a calendar; schedule.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To enter or write in a calendar; register.
  • noun A machine consisting of two or more cylinders or rolls revolving very nearly in contact, between which are passed woven fabrics, paper, etc., for preparation or finishing by means of great pressure, often aided by heat communicated from the interior of the cylinders.
  • noun An establishment in which woven fabrics are prepared for market by the use of the calender and the other necessary processes.
  • noun [Prop. calendrer, q. v.] A calendrer.
  • noun A collection of monthly astronomical tables for a year, arranged by weeks and days, with accompanying data; an almanac.
  • noun A system of reckoning time, especially the method of fixing the length and divisions of the year.
  • noun A table or tables of the days of each month in a year, with their numbers, for use in fixing dates.
  • noun A table or catalogue of persons, events, etc., made out in order of time, as a list of saints with the dates of their festivals, or of the causes to be tried in a court; specifically, in British universities, a chronological statement of the exercises, lectures, examinations, etc., of a year or of a course of study.
  • noun A guide; anything set up to regulate one's conduct.
  • noun A series of emblematic pictures of the months: a common motive of decoration during the middle ages, in sculpture, painted glass, earthenware tiles, and the like.

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

  • transitive verb To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
  • noun An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.
  • noun (Eccl.) A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter.
  • noun An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.
  • noun one that shows the days of the week and month.
  • noun See under Month.
  • noun See under Vendémiaire.
  • noun See under Gregorian, Julian, and Perpetual.

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

  • noun Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
  • noun A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.
  • noun A list of planned events.
  • verb law To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.
  • verb To enter or write in a calendar; to register.

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

  • noun a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year
  • noun a tabular array of the days (usually for one year)
  • noun a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc)
  • verb enter into a calendar

Etymologies

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

[Middle English calender, from Old French calendier, from Late Latin kalendārium, from Latin, account book, from kalendae, calends (from the fact that monthly interest was due on the calends); see kelə- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium ("account book"), from calendae ("the first day of the month"), from calare ("to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)"), from Proto-Indo-European *kel-.

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  • We've all seen just about every kind of calendar you can imagine, but whoever imagined THIS !!?

    August 18, 2007

  • Ugh. That is completely tasteless. Not that I approve of them, but at least I understand the purpose of calendars full of nekkid, or nearly nekkid women. I can't imagine anyone buying a calendar of dog piddle.

    August 19, 2007

  • I think it's supposed to be ironic. Sort of a parody of all the countless (very specific) calendar themes out there. I mean, there are whole stores that sell nothing but calendars. Millions of artsy pictures of things that surely no one could care about. So I can see the humor in a dog poo calendar. Doesn't mean I'd buy one though.

    August 20, 2007

  • This word is from the Latin kalends, which meant "debts are due", which also referred to the first of the month. Apparently, Rome was more similar to us than we thought.

    August 20, 2007