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plural Octobers
The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November. Abbreviation: Oct. examples
(rare) A female given name from English. quotations
The other one [book] I just read is October Suite by Maxine Clair (Random House, $23.95). It's about a woman named October. She's a young black schoolteacher in the 1950s ...
2002 January, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 35, number 4, page 138
From somewhere in the distance came the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle's siren. Lance flipped open his phone. “Get me the address of a woman named October Guinness . . That's right, October,” he said again, [...]
2009, C.S. Graham, The Archangel Project, page 31
uncountable
(now historical) A type of ale traditionally brewed in October. quotations
[T]he gate of a large chateau, of a most noble and venerable appearance […] induced them to alight and view the apartments, contrary to their first intention of drinking a glass of his October at the door.
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […]
third-person singular simple present Octobers, present participle Octobering, simple past and past participle Octobered
(historical, transitive) In the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religious christening.