Calends

Quick meaning: Calends is a noun meaning Often with initial capital: the first day of a month.

Meaning

Often with initial capital: the first day of a month.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A day for settling debts and other accounts.
2. (by extension, biblical, Judaism, obsolete) Synonym of Rosh Hodesh (“the Jewish festival of the new moon, which begins the months of the Hebrew calendar”).
3. (rare) Synonym of calendar; (figurative) an account, a record.
4. (obsolete, figurative) The first day of something; a beginning.
5. (obsolete, rare) plural of calend

Example Sentences

If January calends be summerly gay, / 'Twill be winterly weather till the calend of May.

The Roman Month its ſeveral days divides / By reckoning backwards, Calends, Nones, and Ides.

The Poſt of ſwift-foot Time / Hath now at length begun / The Calends of our middle Age, / Our bloſſoms they are gone.

The third day before the calends of February is 30 January, the third calends of March is 27 or 28 February, and the third of the calends of May is 29 April.

Word Forms

• calend

Synonyms for calends

Depending on context, synonyms include calendar.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dawning, commencement, incipit, prime, begin, begincement.

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