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say it: KAL-uhn-dur
calender is a noun and verb meaning "a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers
press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets
“calender paper”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for calender come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.