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Definition of Solar month
1. Noun. One-twelfth of a solar or tropical year.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solar Month
Literary usage of Solar month
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The civil solar month begins with its first civu day, ... &c., in unbroken
succession to the end of the The civil days of the solar month begin at sunrise. ..."
2. The Indian Calendar: With Tables for the Conversion of Hindu and Muhammadan by Robert Sewell, Sankara Balkrishna Dikshit (1896)
"To avoid such confusion, the Hindus always treat the beginning of the solar month
as occurring, civilly, at sunrise. Hence a variation in practice. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1885)
"The solar month Chaitra consisted of 30 days, 20 hours, 21 minutes, ... When two
lunar months began within the same solar month, the first one was ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"When two lunar months began within the same solar month, the first one was
intercalated. If no lunar month began in the course of a particular solar month, ..."
5. The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish by Henry Cavendish (1921)
"The lunar months begin, not at the full, as in the Benares patra, but at the new
moon, and are called by the name of that solar month which ends during the ..."
6. Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society by James Prinsep (1840)
"... the General Table XIV. namely, in the present instance, the 1st of the solar
month Chyt, which month (by column 14, of Table XIV, will contain 31 days. ..."
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