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January English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word January once they have reached the level A1 – Beginner. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning January meaning

What does January mean?

Definitions in simple English

January Proper noun

— January is the first (1st) month in the year. There are 31 days in January.

January

— noun the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice

Synonyms January synonyms

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January English » English

New Year’s Day

Jan

first month

New Year

Topics January topics

What do people use January to talk about?

States Time Period of time Month

Months of the year

• What are the names of the months of the year?
  January February March April May June July August September October November December

States Time Period of time

Calendar

• What words are used to refer to a particular day?
  date January 1 2000 1-1-00 the first of January 2000

Examples January examples

How do I use January in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The first month of the year is January.

January is usually the coldest month.

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December are the twelve months of the year.

Night comes early in January.

Today is the last day of January.

Jennifer has been working in London since January.

January is over already.

January is the first month of the year.

We have snow in January.

I'm taking an exam in January.

Thank you very much for your letter of January 7th.

I've got to take my library books back before January 25th.

Yesterday was Tuesday, 2010, January the 26th.

Today is January 2nd.

I met him in January.

January is the first month of the calendar.

Sam went skiing in January.

We expected that we should have a warm January, but we hear that this winter is the coldest in twenty years.

From the 5th to the 15th of January, please.

I was born on January 2 in 1968.

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We would have been referring Susan for artificial limb fitting in January anyway, but I spoke to them today and they were happy to see her sooner.

They say you can go swimming there, even in January.

I want to be married on January 10.

Julia's idea is January 10.

You crossed my path first on the 4th of January.

You're slow as molasses in January.

All jurors, parties and witnesses in this case are instructed to return to the Court Tuesday, January 3rd, at 10 a.m.

How much would you charge for 5,000 bail till January 3rd?

The Court at this time will set next Friday, January 6th, 10 a.m. as time for passing sentence.

Warm for January.

I arrived in France the 15th of January '34.

And then, in January '35, I had to go to Berlin on a mission for my firm.

The bank gave me a raise last January.

Conversation between John Huberman and daughter Alicia. 6:00 p.m. January 9, 1946, at Miami Beach, Florida.

Was killed in the prison in January of 1982.

It must have been in January.

January, 1943.

January 30, 1933.

January, when we first had to go back.

In January, when Colonel Thorn came back from the East.

I had customers walking in January in June and drinking champagne.

In January 1 942. and a marine colonel asked me if I'd put on an exhibition for them.

March, January. Two, three. Seven months!

January.

And have you barred said James Higgens from your home pursuant to Mr. Ounce's memorandum, January 13, 1930?

That's Hoppy's cover for the January boudoir.

January's the height of the deb season, and the little darlings might be interested.

The day after tomorrow is the 1st of January.

On January the 8th, Mrs. Charles Franklin, 382 Fern Avenue, New Rochelle. reported the loss of this ring in a robbery.

The end of january last year.

Lucky January: the boy was born and you got a job.

News and current affairs

Consider the question of predicting events like the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which killed more than 200,000 people.

He received these proposals with a warm welcome in January 2003.

But are the results of the parliamentary elections due this coming January truly a foregone conclusion? Or are surprises in store for Putin?

European Union leaders now recognize this: kick-starting growth in 2012 was high on the agenda at the European Council's meeting on January 30.

Realizing that the game was lost, the Social Democrats joined with Klaus's opponents in parliament on January 5th to demand Hodac's resignation.

This effort, known as the UN Millennium Project, will issue its report to Secretary-General Annan on January 17, 2005.

After our report is issued in January, Secretary-General Kofi Annan will issue a report to the world in the spring, identifying the practical steps that should be taken this year.

Perhaps international investors will be grateful to the US for its aggressive monetary and fiscal stimulus, which will accelerate sharply when President-elect Barack Obama takes office on January 20.

For example, in January 1974, when the first world oil crisis began, oil prices doubled in just days.

Japan's self-defense agency was upgraded in January to a full ministry.

When US President Ronald Reagan took office on January 20, 1981, he retroactively rescinded all civil-service job offers extended by the government during the two and a half months between his election and the inauguration.

Within the first year of Romania's accession to the EU on January 1, 2007, for example, roughly a million Romanians migrated to Italy and Spain.

Likewise, in January 2006, following the collapse of negotiations with European emissaries, Iran broke the IAEA seals on the Natanz facility's equipment and storage areas.

In January 2002, American right-wingers were terrified of a leftist revolution in Brazil.

After adjusting for inflation, today's price is nowhere near the all-time high of January 1980.

Likewise, India is all in a quandary over how to handle protocol during Sarkozy's impending visit to the subcontinent as the guest of honor at the country's Republic Day celebrations on January 26.

Spain is taking global leadership in combating hunger by inviting world leaders to Madrid in late January to move beyond words to action.

History can be made in Madrid at the end of January, when the world's richest and poorest countries converge to seek solutions to the global hunger crisis.

Private-sector employment is still down 4.1 million from its January 2008 peak.

By the time the next presidential term starts in January 2013, and contrary to the current narratives advanced by the Obama and Romney campaigns, the incumbent will find himself with limited room for maneuver on economic policy.

We held a prestigious Panel at Davos with these leaders in January 2011, where, on the occasion of our Interim Report, we gave full-throated support to concluding Doha.

Indeed, it is notable that, while Obama's State of the Union address in January 2010 at least mentioned Doha, his address in January 2011 did not.

And we can assume that it would be repealed and replaced by something else come January 2013, either by a re-elected President Barack Obama, or by a new, Republican president.

After the January 2013 Israeli elections, Iran will again move to the top of Obama's foreign-policy agenda.

But are the results of the parliamentary elections due this coming January truly a foregone conclusion?

Consider Israel, which has watched the events in Cairo with a degree of worry unfelt since January 1979, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini unseated the Shah of Iran.

For example, the 30th anniversary of China's reform movement and the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States has been a much-celebrated event this January.