Results for may

Definitions of may:

part of speech: auxiliary verb

To be able; be allowed; to express earnest desire; as, may you never repent this act; to be, under the circumstances, possible; as, the illness may cause his death; to chance, or happen by chance.- May, the fifth month of the year.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To gather May ( prov. E. the blossom of the hawthorn, which blooms in May):- pr. p. Maying.

part of speech: past tense

Might.

part of speech: noun

The fifth month of the year.

part of speech: verb

An auxiliary verb expressing liberty, desire, or wish; to be able; to be possible, as it may be so; to be permitted or allowed; to be by chance, as how old may he be.

part of speech: noun

The fifth month of the year: the early or gay part of life.