nounplural noun Januaries

• The first month of the year, in the northern hemisphere usually considered the second month of winter.

  ‘Sophie was two in January’

  More example sentences

  • ‘the January sales’
  • ‘Of note is the rise in mean minimum temperatures for January, the coolest month of the year.’
  • ‘I worked in Lancashire for a few years, and in my first January there it rained every day.’
  • ‘In January, heavy seas swept a family of five off an exposed coastal road to their deaths.’
  • ‘St Hilary's feast day on 13 th January has gained the reputation of being the coldest day of the year.’
  • ‘Since 1926, only two other Januaries failed to produce a measurable snowfall - 1934, 1973, and now 2006 all share the distinction of least-snowy Januaries.’