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English
Etymology
From birth + month, after birthday.
Noun
birthmonth (plural birthmonths)
- 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 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.
, Gwyn Evans, John Reynolds, Statistics Module S1 (Modular Mathematics), : 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, : 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.