July — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August.

   Synonyms

   Seventh Month

   Examples

   Holonyms: calendar year; year

   From July 2025, the income assessment method for young couples buying BTO flats will be tweaked.

2. A female given name from English.

   Usage

   • Uncommon

   Examples

   More examples (2)

   By 1880, in his early to middle twenties, he had married a literate woman named July, who would be his first of three wives. Riley continued to live close to his parents, James and Frances, whose house was just three doors down and who still had four of their own children living with them in addition to a grandson.

   In Prairie County, Arkansas, in March 1863, a black woman named July, born free in Tennessee but under indenture to a white man until she turned twenty-one, was brought before a circuit court when she was just short of reaching her age of freedom.

Proper noun

1. A surname from French.

Noun

1. the month following June and preceding August

   Broader terms

   Gregorian calendar month