calendarcal‧en‧dar /ˈkæləndə $ -ər/ ●●● S3 noun [countable] 
a desk calendar b)all the things you plan to do in the next days, months etc: an event that deserves a place on your calendar3a system that divides and measures time in a particular way, usually starting from a particular eventthe Roman/Islamic/Gregorian etc calendar4all the events in a year that are important for a particular organization or activitygolfing/sporting/racing etc calendar The Derby is a major event in the racing calendar.
WORD ORIGINcalendar
Origin:
1100-1200 Anglo-French calender, from Medieval Latin kalendarium, from Latin kalendae ‘first day of an ancient Roman month’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- My calendar is full for the rest of the week.
- the Jewish calendar
- The Tour de France is the biggest race in the cycling calendar.
- A Colt calendar was on the wall.
- After that, the department will have 10 calendar days to rule on the acquisition.
- But the fact that they teach the calendar in no way guarantees that my son or any other child will learn it.
- In addition, it is necessary to follow how the calendar itself was constructed.
- It has been on the provisional calendar before, but never staged a race.
- Oswald thought he might be making a calendar.
- These cases come first on the court's calendar.
- With the conference at last on the calendar, the various countries began preparatory activities to enhance their bargaining positions.
WORD SETS
AD, advance, verbafter, prepositionafternoon, nounalarm, nounalarm clock, nouna.m., Anno Domini, annual, adjectiveApril, nounAsh Wednesday, nounAug., August, nounautumn, nounautumnal, adjectivebank holiday, nounBC, BCE, biannual, adjectivebicentenary, nounbicentennial, nounbiennial, adjectivebimonthly, adjectivebirthday, nounbiweekly, adjectivebonfire night, nounBoxing Day, nounBritish Summer Time, nounBST, nouncalendar, nouncalendar month, nouncalendar year, nouncarriage clock, nouncentenary, nouncentury, nounChristmas, nounChristmas Day, nounChristmas Eve, nounChristmastime, nounchronograph, nounchronological, adjectivechronometer, nouncircadian, adjectiveclock, nouncrystal, nouncuckoo clock, nouncycle, nouncyclic, adjectivedaily, adjectivedaily, adverbdate, noundate, verbdawn, nounday, nounDec., decade, nounDecember, noundiamond anniversary, noundiamond jubilee, noundinnertime, noundiurnal, adjectived.o.b., due date, noundusk, nounface, nounFather's Day, nounfeast, nounFebruary, nounfortnightly, adjectiveFourth of July, the, Fri., Friday, nounGood Friday, nounGreenwich Mean Time, nounGregorian calendar, nounguy, nounGuy Fawkes Night, nounhalf-hourly, adjectivehalf-yearly, adjectiveHalloween, nounhand, nounHanukkah, nounharvest festival, nounHogmanay, nounhorn, nounhour, nounhourglass, nounhour hand, nounhr, Independence Day, nounJan., January, nounjubilee, nounJuly, nounJune, nounLabor Day, nounleap year, nounlunar month, nounmainspring, nounman-hour, nounMar., March, nounMardi Gras, nounmarket day, nounMaundy Thursday, nounMay, nounMay Day, nounMichaelmas, nounmidday, nounmiddle age, nounmiddle-aged, adjectivemidnight, nounMidsummer Day, nounmidweek, adjectivemillennium, nounmin., minute hand, nounMon., Monday, nounmonth, nounmorn, nounmorning, nounMothering Sunday, nounMother's Day, nounmovable feast, nounnew moon, nounNew Year, nounNew Year's Day, nounNew Year's Eve, nounnight, nounnightfall, nounnighttime, nounnocturnal, adjectiveNoel, nounnoon, nounnoonday, adjectiveNov., November, nounOct., October, nounp.a., Pancake Day, nounPDT, penultimate, adjectiveper annum, adverbper diem, adverbperiodic, adjectivep.m., PST, public holiday, nounquarter, nounquotidian, adjectiveRemembrance Day, nounSat., Saturday, nounschoolday, nounseason, nounsecond, nounsecond hand, nounself-winding, adjectiveSeptember, nounshockproof, adjectivesilver anniversary, nounsilver jubilee, nounsilver wedding anniversary, nounsolar year, nounsolstice, nounspring, nounspringtime, nounstandard time, nounstopwatch, nounsummer, nounsummer solstice, nounsummertime, nounsummery, adjectiveSun., Sunday, nounsundown, nounsunrise, nounsunset, nounsun-up, nountercentenary, nounThanksgiving, nounthirty, numberThursday, nountime, nountime, verbtimepiece, nountimer, nountime signal, nountime warp, nountime zone, nountoday, adverbtoday, nountomorrow, adverbtomorrow, nountonight, adverbtonight, nountriennial, adjectiveTuesday, nountwilight, nounWed., Wednesday, nounweek, nounweekday, nounweekend, nounweekly, adjectiveweeknight, nounWhit, nounWhitsun, nounwinter, nounwintertime, nounwk., wristwatch, nounyear, nounyesterday, adverbyr., Yule, nounYuletide, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The Derby is a major event in the racing calendar.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a set of pages that show the days, weeks, and months of a particular year, that you usually hang on a wall2American English a)a book with separate spaces or pages for each day of the year, on which you write down the things you have to do SYN diary British English: The Derby is a major event in the racing calendar. (=one of the 12 months of the year)· We get paid on the last day of the calendar month.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· All I know, like the protestors when the Julian became the Gregorian calendar, is that I must have missed something.
· The May festival has become a major social event in the racing calendar and includes a classic trial for the Derby.· He is able to run his part-time practice in Leyburn he worked in Darlington and Richmond before that around the racing calendar.
· Too much need not be made of this, and the Roman calendar will suffice for all but the quite rarest occasions.· The first mention of Christmas Day, as far as we know, was in the Roman calendar for the year 354.· The old Roman calendar of festivals contained a cycle of urban celebrations reaching back to the city's legendary foundation.
· The expense would all go for nothing now because the Emperor had just rewritten the social calendar.· She says that she still plans her weekends, her social calendar, around the games.· Tomorrow night was the most important night of Brentford's social calendar.· This is not to underestimate the Club's previous social calendar which for many years included successful dinner dances and club socials.· Ethel Mitchell and her ladies were having a function, a dinner-dance, the highlight of their social calendar.· To introduce a bagman was one of the worst crimes in hunting's social calendar.· There was quite a social calendar to keep me occupied if I ever tired of my own company.· I insist on eating properly and will not skimp, even if it means altering the social calendar to suit.
NOUN· Be sure to apply before the first of the calendar month when you want the rebate to start.
· We have to call the years 1,2 and so on, instead of quoting the calendar years.· The company a year ago changed its reporting period to a fiscal year that ends March 31 from a calendar year.· If adopted, it would apply to calendar year 1993 statements.· At that rate, the fund would have run out of money by the end of the calendar year.· All research into present day matters will be by participant-observation while living in a Navarran village throughout the calendar year 1986.· In calendar year 1996, the Cfund returned 22. 85 percent.· Despite its name it is not a calendar year or, necessarily, a period of 12 months.· Exhibit 7. 6 traces the process through the end of the calendar year 1998.
· We have to call the years 1,2 and so on, instead of quoting the calendar years.· Its purpose was to rectify an accumulated error between the solar and calendar years since the modifications introduced by Augustus.· Thus, whenever possible the radiocarbon age should be calibrated to actual calendar years.
VERB· Colette, it was, who looked at the calendar and identified that day as such.· I looked at the calendar on the wall opposite the bed; it was the end of June.· Joshua Morris looked down his calendar of events, carefully prepared for him by his secretary.· If the light had been better, I might have reached for my wallet and looked at my calendar.· After looking at the calendar and getting approval from doctors, they agreed to induce labor of daughter Lauren.· He looked at the calendar clock on his desk.· I looked at my desk calendar.
· If you have occasional bad attacks of your minor symptoms, mark your calendar.
a desk calendar b)all the things you plan to do in the next days, months etc: an event that deserves a place on your calendar3a system that divides and measures time in a particular way, usually starting from a particular eventthe Roman/Islamic/Gregorian etc calendar4all the events in a year that are important for a particular organization or activitygolfing/sporting/racing etc calendar The Derby is a major event in the racing calendar.