CALENDAR | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of calendar in English calendarnoun [ C ] uk /ˈkæl.ən.dər/ us /ˈkæl.ən.dɚ/ Add to word list Add to word list A2 a printed table showing all the days, weeks, and months of the year: An old calendar for 2012 was still hanging on the wall of her office.   filo/DigitalVision Vectors/GettyImages US a book with a separate space or page for each day, in which you write down your future arrangements, meetings, etc.: He wrote the date of the meeting in his calendar.   samsonovs/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images /GettyImages the system used to measure and arrange the days, weeks, months, and special events of the year according to a belief system or tradition: the Christian/Jewish/Chinese calendar a list of events and dates within a particular year that are important for an organization or for the people involved in a particular activity: the political/school calendar

• Let me look at the calendar and see which weekends are free.
• I've marked his birthday on the calendar.
• The calendar is looking quite busy for March.
• I'm counting down the days on the calendar till he's back.
• I need a desk calendar for work.

Schedules & agendas

• agenda
• ahead of schedule
• AOB
• block schedule
• block scheduling
• EPG
• fit in phrasal verb
• Hegira
• Hejira
• Hijrah
• programme
• regular season
• schedule
• scheduled
• set the agenda idiom
• slot
• slot someone/something in phrasal verb
• spread
• squeeze
• stagger

See more results » calendarverb [ T ] US uk /ˈkæl.ən.dər/ us /ˈkæl.ən.dɚ/ to plan an event to take place on a particular date: The house calendared an anti-terrorism bill in November. Plans are made, and don’t work out. Appointments are calendared, then cancelled.

• I just calendared a meeting for the 18th but I have to move it to the 30th.
• Hearings should be calendared within 120 days of the complaint.
• They want the meeting calendared for May.
• the end of the calendared school year

Planning, expecting and arranging

• accidentally
• accidentally on purpose idiom
• advertent
• advisably
• advisedly
• allow
• cue
• game fixing
• game something out phrasal verb
• half expect someone/something to do something
• hatch
• have something in mind idiom
• have something up your sleeve idiom
• muster
• prognosis
• programmatically
• proposed
• provide
• provide against something phrasal verb
• provide for someone phrasal verb

See more results » (Definition of calendar from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

calendar | American Dictionary

calendarnoun [ C ] us /ˈkæl·ən·dər/ Add to word list Add to word list a printed table showing the arrangement of the days, weeks, and months of the year A calendar is also a list of meetings or things you have to do at particular times: My calendar is pretty crowded over the next few weeks. A calendar is also a system for deciding the beginning and end of years, their total length, and the parts into which they are divided: The Gregorian calendar is used today in most parts of the world. (Definition of calendar from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

calendar | Business English

calendarnoun [ C ] uk /ˈkæləndər/ us Add to word list Add to word list a table showing all the days, weeks, and months of the year: a desk/wall calendar The date Dec. 31 is circled in red on the calendar US ( UK diary) a book, with pages for each day, in which you write down what you have to do: I've noted the date in my calendar. IT a computer program showing planned activities with their dates and times: I can access the calendars of everybody in the department. There's nothing in his calendar for today. To submit events directly to the online calendar, please enter a user name and email address on the form below. a list of events and dates within a year that are important to an organization or to the people involved in a particular activity: the academic/court/election, etc. calendar With just weeks left in the legislative calendar, there has been no vote yet on this most important issue. (Definition of calendar from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of calendar?

Translations of calendar

in Chinese (Traditional) 日曆, 日曆本, 曆法… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 日历, 日历本, 历法… See more in Spanish calendario, agenda, calendario [masculine]… See more in Portuguese calendário, agenda, calendário [masculine]… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian दिनदर्शिका, दैनंदिनी… See more カレンダー, スケジュール帳, 行事表（ぎょうじひょう）… See more takvim, faaliyet programı… See more calendrier [masculine], calendrier… See more calendari, agenda… See more kalender, agenda… See more ஆண்டின் அனைத்து நாட்கள், வாரங்கள் மற்றும் மாதங்களைக் காட்டும் அச்சிடப்பட்ட அட்டவணை, ஒவ்வொரு நாளும் ஒரு தனி இடம் அல்லது பக்கத்தைக் கொண்ட ஒரு புத்தகம்… See more कैलेंडर, हर दिन के लिए एक अलग स्थान या पन्ने वाली पुस्तिका जिसमें आप अपने भविष्य की महत्वपूर्ण आयोजन, बैठकों… See more તારીખિયું, નોંધપોથી, ડાયરી… See more kalender… See more almanacka, kalender, förteckning… See more kalendar, jadual… See more der Kalender, der Terminkalender… See more kalender [masculine], program [neuter], terminliste [masculine]… See more کیلنڈر, کتاب جس میں ہر دن کے لئےالگ جگہ یا صفحہ ہو، جس میں آپ اپنے مستقبل کے یادداشتیں، ملاقاتیں وغیرہ لکھیں۔, کیلنڈر (مختلف عقائد کے لوگوں کے مہینوں ، تاریخوں اور خاص واقعات کا تفصیل والا نظام)… See more календар… See more పంచాంగం, క్యాలెండర్, ప్రతి రోజు కోసం ఒక విడి స్థలం గానీ పేజీ గానీ ఉన్న పుస్తకం. దీనిని మీ రాబోయే రోజుల ఏర్పాట్లు… See more ক্যালেন্ডার, নির্ঘণ্ট, কোনো একটি বছরের সবকটি মাস… See more kalendář, rozpis… See more kalender, daftar acara… See more ปฏิทิน, รายการนัดหรือเหตุการณ์สำคัญ… See more lịch, lịch trình… See more kalendarz… See more 달력, 일기, 다이어리… See more calendario, agenda… See more Need a translator?

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