monthfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

monthful (複数形 monthfuls または monthsful)

1. A quantity that lasts or occurs throughout a month.
   • 1945, American Cookery - Volume 51, page 53:

     Here's a monthful of school day suggestions to add the flavor children like, the variety they need, the food value your Community School Lunch Program calls for.

   • 1960, Saturday Review - Volume 43, Part 3, page 34:

     Although Mr. Lippmann's views on foreign and national affairs are familiar to regular readers of his syndicated newspaper column, and also to those who follow his books, it was a considerable novelty to have the Lippmann perspective on a TV summit, as it were, ranging rapidly and broadly over the substance of a monthful of columns.

   • 1964, The Realist - Issues 48-70, page 19:

     I ran all the way from the Daily News Building, with two monthsful of funnies under my arm, to tell you what happened.

   • 2007, Frank S. Johnson, Sailing the Blue-Green Line:

     The following day, another in a monthful of perfect ones on the Keys, Emily and I had our own heart-to-heart communion.