APRIL

Pronunciation (US):

• APRIL (noun)
  The noun APRIL has 1 sense:

1. the month following March and preceding May

  Familiarity information: APRIL used as a noun is very rare.

• APRIL (noun)

Meaning:

The month following March and preceding May

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Apr; April

Hypernyms ("April" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "April"):

All Fools' day; April Fools'; April Fools' day (the first day of April which is celebrated by playing practical jokes)

April 14; Pan American Day (a day celebrating political and economic unity among American countries)

Patriot's Day (the 3rd Monday in April; Massachusetts and Maine celebrate the battle of Lexington and Concord in 1775)

mid-April (the middle part of April)

Holonyms ("April" is a part of...):

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)