birthmonth

English

Etymology

From birth +‎ month, after birthday.

Noun

birthmonth (plural birthmonths)

1. The month in which someone is born.
   • 1973 December, David P. Phillips, Kenneth A. Feldman, “A Dip in Deaths Before Ceremonial Occasions: Some New Relationships Between Social Integration and Mortality”, in James F[ranklin] Short, Jr., editor, American Sociological Review, volume 38, number 6, Albany, N.Y.: American Sociological Association, →ISSN, page 679, columns 1–2:

     A person is said to have died on his birthmonth if the month of his death is the same as the month of his birth. Accordingly, if a person was born on March 1, 1797, and died on March 31, 1850, he died on his birthmonth; […]

   • 1975, Warren L. Cruikshank, John D. Burke, Real Estate Sales and Brokerage: Preparing for the Licensing Exams, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 178, column 2:

     License expires end of licensee’s birthmonth.

   • 1991 July, James Alan Gardner, “Shadow Album”, in Kim Mohan, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 66, number 3 (whole 560), Lake Geneva, Wis.: TSR, Inc., →ISSN, page 28, column 2:

     The flowers are chrysanthemums, totem flowers of my birthmonth.

   • 1993 November 26, Smith & Neil Jewelers, “Mother’s Rings® Are Made For… Memories”, in Paul R. Lopes, editor, The Wanderer, volume 2, number 46, Mattapoisett, Mass., page 65:

     Choose from our selection of classic handcrafted Mother’s Rings set with lustrous stones to mark the birthmonth of each child.

   • 1996, Daniel D. Pearlman, Faun Bernbach Evans, Raymond H. Clines, Guide to Rapid Revision Workbook, 3rd edition, Boston, Mass.: Allyn & Bacon, →ISBN, page 161:

     July, his [Julius Caesar’s] birthmonth, is named in his honor.

   • [1998?], Gwyn Evans, John Reynolds, Statistics Module S1 (Modular Mathematics), [Cardiff]: RND Publications Ltd, →ISBN, page 16:

     Stating any assumptions that you make find an expression for the probability that in a group of n people at least two of them share the same birthmonth. Deduce the smallest n for which the group is more likely than not to include at least two people sharing the same birthmonth.

   • 1999, Aubrey Hampton Payne, Payne-Golding Family History: Wiley Payne (1851) & Nancy Jane Golding (1858), Their Ancestry to Colonial Virginia, Their Descendants through c1995, Waban, Mass.: WabAnawan Publishing, →ISBN, page 104:

     At the birthdate shown (1900 census - but the census gives his birthmonth as March!?) he would have been 19 when the war ended in the Spring of 1865.

   • 2002, Stephanie Brooks with Karen Mannion, Seahorses: Connemara and Its Ponies, [s.l.]: Meredith Praed, →ISBN, page 155:

     We called him ‘October’ for his birthmonth.

   • 2004, Janina Renée, By Candlelight: Rites for Celebration, Blessing & Prayer, Saint Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 164:

     If you have collections that represent the twelve months (such as birthmonth angels) you can arrange them around your candle.

   • 2005, Larry Rabinowitz, Elementary Probability with Applications, Wellesley, Mass.: A K Peters, →ISBN, page 45:

     If there are 5 people in a room find the probability that at least two people have the same birthmonth. (Assume all 12 birthmonths are equally likely.)

   • 2006, Janine Burke, The Sphinx on the Table: Sigmund Freud’s Art Collection and the Development of Psychoanalysis, New York, N.Y.: Walker & Company, →ISBN, page 412:

     His May birthmonth (known as the “5th moon” of the Chinese lunar year) is ruled by the sage Snake.