"monthful" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: monthfuls [plural], monthsful [plural]
Etymology: month + -ful Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|month|ful|pos=noun}} month + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|s|monthsful}} monthful (plural monthfuls or monthsful)
  1. A quantity that lasts or occurs throughout a month.
    Sense id: en-monthful-en-noun-t-Blgqkx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for monthful meaning in English (1.9kB)

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        {
          "ref": "1945, American Cookery - Volume 51, page 53",
          "text": "Here's a monthful of school day suggestions to add the flavor children like, the variety they need, the food value your Community School Lunch Program calls for.",
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        {
          "ref": "1960, Saturday Review - Volume 43, Part 3, page 34",
          "text": "Although Mr. Lippmann's views on foreign and national affairs are familiar to regular readers of his syndicated newspaper column, and also to those who follow his books, it was a considerable novelty to have the Lippmann perspective on a TV summit, as it were, ranging rapidly and broadly over the substance of a monthful of columns.",
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          "ref": "1964, The Realist - Issues 48-70, page 19",
          "text": "I ran all the way from the Daily News Building, with two monthsful of funnies under my arm, to tell you what happened.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Frank S. Johnson, Sailing the Blue-Green Line",
          "text": "The following day, another in a monthful of perfect ones on the Keys, Emily and I had our own heart-to-heart communion.",
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