Definition of May

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Definition of May

May

An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can.

A maiden.

The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

The early part or springtime of life.

The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.

The merrymaking of May Day.

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May Quotations

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother Teresa

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas Jefferson

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Thomas Jefferson

May Translations

may in Afrikaans is kan, mag
May in Afrikaans is Mei
may in Danish is kunne
May in Danish is maj
may in Dutch is mogen
May in Dutch is bloeimaand, mei
May in Finnish is toukokuu
may in Finnish is voida
May in French is mai
may in French is pouvoir
May in Italian is maggio
may in Italian is potere
May in Norwegian is mai
may in Portuguese is possa
May in Portuguese is Maio
may in Spanish is poder
May in Spanish is mayo
May in Swedish is maj

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