How to pronounce “calends”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Often with initial capital: the first day of a month.
• (by extension) A day for settling debts and other accounts.
• (by extension, biblical, Judaism, obsolete) Synonym of Rosh Hodesh (“the Jewish festival of the new moon, which begins the months of the Hebrew calendar”).
• (rare) Synonym of calendar; (figurative) an account, a record.
• (obsolete, figurative) The first day of something; a beginning.

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