(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is one of the twelve periods of time that a year is divided into, for example January or February.
The trial is due to begin next ~.
...an exhibition which opens this ~ at London’s Design Museum...
I send him fifteen dollars a ~.
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2.
A ~ is a period of about four weeks.
She was here for a ~...
Over the next several ~s I met most of her family...
...a ~’s unlimited train travel.
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