november

noun

1. the eleventh month of the year, containing 30 days.
2. a word used in communications to represent the letter N. Abbr.: Nov.

noun

1. the eleventh month of the year, consisting of 30 days
2. communications a code word for the letter n

c.1200, from Old French novembre and directly from Latin November (also Novembris (mensis)), from novem “nine” (see nine). The ninth month of the Roman calendar, which began in March. For -ber see December. In Old English, it was Blotmonað “month of sacrifice,” literally “blood-month,” the time when the early Saxons prepared for winter by sacrificing animals, which they then butchered and stored for food.