september
part of speech
noun (September)
meaning for a pupil
1) September is the ninth month of the year. It has 30 days. tree →
2) In the northern half of the world (USA, UK, Canada, Ireland) it is the start of autumn and of the school year; in Australia and New Zealand it is the start of spring. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: a month in time and calendar problems; it hides 30 days; amounts per day × 30; counting months. In everyday life: back to school, autumn leaves (north), spring flowers (south). Phrases: «in September», «early September», «last September».
examples
- NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned at sacred-texts.com, September 2005. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- September has 30 days. tree →
- School starts in September. tree →
- She saved 2 dollars a day in September. tree →
- How many days from September to December? tree →
- September is the ninth month. tree →
- In Canada the leaves start to change colour in September. tree →
- In New Zealand, spring begins in September. tree →
- «Thirty days has September, April, June and November.» tree →
- It was a lovely starlight night in the beginning of September, and the air was mild and still. tree →
note
Always a capital S. Short form «Sept» or «Sep». «In September», not «on September». Maths: a month; it hides «30 days». Trap: «from September to December» counts the months with care — 4 months if both are included.
In the corpora
- Queen Elizabeth II died on 8 September 2022 at Balmoral in Scotland, aged 96, after seventy years as Queen.
- April, June, September and November have 30 days; the other months have 31, except February.
- Britain switched in 1752, when 2 September was followed by 14 September, skipping 11 dates.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «september» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.