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Janus is a related term of january.

janus

English

(wikipedia Janus)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (Roman god) The god of gates and doorways; having two faces looking in opposite directions.
  • * 1789 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Volume 5, 1805, page 166,
  • But the brazen temple of Janus was left standing in the forum; of a size sufficient only to contain the statue of the god, five cubits height, of a human form, but with two faces, directed to the east and west.
  • * 1818 , (Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier), , Chapter V,
  • "I'll tell you what we can do," cried her persevering patroness; "we can go as masks, and Lady Juliana shall know nothing about it. That will save the scandal of an open revolt or a tiresome dispute. Half the company will be masked; so, if you keep your own secret, nobody will find it out. Come, what characters shall we choose?"
    "That of Janus , I think, would be the most suitable for me," said Mary.
  • * 1905 , (Livy), Canon Roberts (translator), , Book 1: The Earliest Legends,
  • Thinking that the ferocity of his subjects might be mitigated by the disuse of arms, he built the temple of Janus at the foot of the Aventine as an index of peace and war, to signify when it was open that the State was under arms, and when it was shut that all the surrounding nations were at peace.
  • * 2008 , John Lowe, "Laughin' up a World:'' Their Eyes Were Watching God ''and the (Wo)Man of Words''", in Harold Bloom (editor), ''Interpretations: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God , page 75,
  • Janus , with his two heads, his mystery, his depiction as both laughing and serious, and the obvious parallel this forms with the masks of attic tragedy and comedy would make him a double of the two-headed man, the conjurer, and an associate of the trickster in folk comedy as well.
  • A two-faced person, a hypocrite.
  • (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
  • Usage notes

    The temple of Janus was traditionally open only during time of war. Hence, for example: * The present occupants of the Treasury Bench are determined that so long as they retain their places the Temple of Janus''' shall not be closed.'' — '''1879 February 27, , ''On the Zulu War (speech before the UK House of Commons).

    Derived terms

    * Janus-faced * Janus green B * Janus-headed * Janus particle * Janian ----

    january

    English

    Proper noun

    (en-proper noun)
  • The first month of the Gregorian calendar, following the December of the previous year and preceding February. Abbreviation: Jan' or '
  • 01/01/09 : Thursday, January 1st, 2009.

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from January) * Black January * January Club * January effect * January Events * January indicator * January Massacre * January Rebellion * January sales * January thaw * January Uprising * May and January * mid-January

    See also

    * English eponyms