Bimonthly

Definitions: Bimonthly

Bimonthly

Adjective

1. Occurring twice a month; "a semimonthly publication".

2. Occurring every two months; "bimonthly visits".

Synonyms: Bimonthly

Synonyms: bimestrial (adj), semimonthly (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bimonthly

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity	Hourly; diurnal, daily; quotidian, tertian, weekly; hebdomadal, hebdomadary; biweekly, fortnightly; bimonthly; catamenial; monthly, menstrual; yearly, annual; biennial, triennial; centennial, secular; paschal, lenten;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bimonthly

English words defined with "bimonthly": Bimensal. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Bimonthly

Domain	Title
Books	Residential Telecommunications Bimonthly Update: July 2, 2001 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Wireless and Mobile Communications Bimonthly Newsletter - June 18, 2001 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Bimonthly Bank Changes (reference) Bimonthly Review Of Law Books (reference) Bookfind - Cd World Ed - Cd-rom - Bimonthly (reference) Carrolls Federal Directory - Bimonthly (reference) Government Documents Catalog Subscription Service - Cd-Rom - Bimonthly (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Bimonthly

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	Farmers eating ice cream on the back porch while their wives attended the bimonthly meeting of the Helping Hand society. Gage County, Nebraska.Credit: Library of Congress.		Farm wives at bimonthly meeting of the Helping Hand society. Gage County, Nebraska.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bimonthly

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Gluten-Free Living (a bimonthly newsletter)P. (references)
		The Association publishes a bimonthly newsletter, "The Motivator," which contains feature stories about patients, health tips, medical updates, and occasionally referral information. (references)
		In addition, the society sponsors a grants program for research on disabling conditions and rehabilitation, provides low-cost booklets and pamphlets to the public, and publishes a bimonthly journal. (references)
Business		However, as these magazines are monthly and bimonthly, most of their articles are old news by the time they reach their readership. (references)
		Although some Peruvians still believe that raising walls and hiring security guards, alone, is sufficient to secure homes or businesses, this is no longer the case. According to an article published in the March/April 2000 issue of Contact Peru, the bimonthly journal of the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru, "upwards of 90 percent of crimes were committed by people from within the company. (references)
Civil Liberties	Sao Tome and Principe	Two government-run and six independent newspapers and newsletters are published sporadically, usually on a monthly or bimonthly basis. (references)
	Somalia	In August 2000, the Islamic Court Militia detained Ahmed Abd Al Rahman Dhalbaaq, the editor of the Merka, Lower Shabelle, bimonthly newspaper, Gaim, reportedly for reporting on a decrease in security in the town. (references)
	Belgium	The report also recommended that the Ministry of Justice adopt a law to prohibit the abuse of a situation of "weakness." An interagency coordination group designed to work in conjunction with the center to coordinate government policy meets bimonthly to exchange information on sect activities. (references)
Economic History	Malaysia	However, companies are required under the compulsory tax payment scheme to pay tax in bimonthly installments for each assessment year commencing from the month of January or February based on an estimate of tax payable. (references)
Human Rights	Tunisia	Former National High Commissioner for Human Rights Rachid Driss, whose former organization is government-funded, had conducted bimonthly, unannounced prison inspections since 1996. Although Driss has declared that prison conditions and prisoner hygiene were "good and improving," details of his inspections were not made public. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bimonthly

"Bimonthly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bimonthly" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	11	106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Bimonthly

Expression using "bimonthly": bimonthly bimestrial. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bimonthly

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
bimonthly mortgage calculator	53
bimonthly mortgage payment	10
bimonthly	7
bimonthly mortgage	6
bimonthly payment	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bimonthly

Language		Translations for "bimonthly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏نصف شهري (fortnightly). (various references)

Bulgarian		който става през два месеца, който става два пъти в месеца. (various references)

Danish		hver anden måned. (various references)

Dutch		tweemaandelijks. (various references)

Farsi		مجله ای که دوماه یکبارمنتشرمیشود. (various references)

Finnish		joka toinen kuukausi ilmestyvä. (various references)

French		bimestriel, bimensuel. (various references)

German		zweimonatlich. (various references)

Greek		κάθε δεύτερο μήνα, διμηνιαίοσ, διμηνιαίο, δίμηνοσ. (various references)

Italian		bimestrale (bimestrial, two-month, two-monthly), bimensile (fortnightly, semi-monthly), ogni due mesi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"月刊 (published bimonthly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かく�'つか�" (published bimonthly). (various references)

Korean		격�"� �으로. (various references)

Pig Latin		imonthlybay

Portuguese		bimestral, quinzenal (biweekly, fortress). (various references)

Russian		двухмесячник двухмесячный раз в два месяца. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		časopis koji izlazi svaka dva meseca. (various references)

Spanish		bimestral. (various references)

Swedish		varannan månad. (various references)

Thai		ทุกสองสัป�"าห์. (various references)

Turkish		iki aylık, iki ayda bir olan, iki ayda bir çıkan dergi, iki ayda bir, iki ay süren, ayda iki kez (semimonthly). (various references)

Ukranian		раз на два місяці, що виходить раз на два місяці, журнал, що виходить раз на два місяці. (various references)

Vietnamese		tạo chí ra hai tháng một kỳ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Bimonthly

Misspellings
	"Bimonthly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bimonthley. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bimonthly"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bimonthly" (pronounced bīmu"nthlē)
6	-m u" n th l ē	monthly.
3	-th l ē	blithely, deathly, earthly, fourthly, unearthly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Bimonthly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-h-i-l-m-n-o-t-y"
	-2 letters: monthly, thionyl.
	-3 letters: homily, hominy, intomb, mythoi, nimbly, thinly, thymol.
	-4 letters: biont, blimy, bothy, hotly, limbo, limby, linty, litho, milty, minty, month, mothy, nobly, noily, thiol, thymi.
	-5 letters: bint, blin, blot, boil, bolt, bony, both, hilt, hint, holm, holt, holy, homy, hymn, inby, inly, into, limb, limn, limo, limy, lino, lint, liny, lion, loin.
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