February: nm (word coming from the Latin febrarius, classic februarius “month of purification”).
Second month of the year, in the Gregorian calendar, which has twenty-eight days in ordinary years and twenty-nine (bissexte) in leap years (*) (corresponded to pluviôse, ventôse, in the republican calendar).
Candlemas is celebrated on February 2.
She is going skiing in February.
Rare and literary in the plural: Sunny Februarys.
(*) Relating to the bissexte, which contains ...
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