monthly
part of speech
adjective (monthly); adverb (monthly); noun (a monthly, monthlies)
meaning for a pupil
1) Happening, done or paid once every month. tree →
2) Measured over one month (monthly rainfall). tree →
3) (noun) A magazine that comes out once a month. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Monthly means "month by month." Isaiah mocks Babylon's astrologers who claim to predict from the new moon. Interpretation: Tradition forbids fortune-telling and trusting the stars. Israel's calendar follows the new moon, but it does not tell the future. In the primary lessons: In maths problems: monthly payments, monthly pocket money; to get a yearly total, multiply by 12. In science: monthly rainfall charts. In everyday life: monthly bills, a monthly magazine. Phrases: monthly payment, monthly meeting, paid monthly.
examples
- Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels; let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee. (Prophets ISA.47.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- I get my pocket money monthly. tree →
- The club has a monthly meeting. tree →
- Look at the monthly rainfall in the bar chart. tree →
- We pay for the gym monthly. tree →
- Mum reads a monthly cooking magazine. tree →
- If the monthly cost is 15 dollars, the cost for a year is 15 × 12 = 180 dollars. tree →
- In the window stood a bush bearing monthly roses. tree →
note
Same form as adjective and adverb: "a monthly bill" and "paid monthly". For numbers: a year has 12 months, so yearly = monthly × 12; a month is about 4 weeks, but not exactly (most months are a little more than 4 weeks).
In the corpora
- A mortgage is a very big bank loan to buy a house, paid back monthly for 25 years or more with interest.
- "That time of the month" means a woman's monthly period.
- Small monthly subscriptions add up to big amounts over a year, so it is worth checking and cancelling unused ones.
- Payday is the day pay arrives; many families paid monthly have to make money last until the next payday.
Trees and pragmatics
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