Ides
[iydz]
Part of speech: plural noun
Origin: Late Old English
1.
(In the ancient Roman calendar) A day falling roughly in the middle of each month (the 15th day of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th of other months) from which other dates were calculated.
Examples of Ides in a sentence
"Don knew he couldn’t take on any more work until at least the ides."
"I arrived in Costa Rica in the ides of September, the middle of the rainy season."
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