Standard Lemma guide

sept

name · noun · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK, US: /sɛpt/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɛpt
  • CMU ARPABET: S EH1 P T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

Alternative form of Sep: Abbreviation of September.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, India, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, alternative

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

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4

noun

Meaning 4

An enclosure; a railing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

simple past and past participle of seep

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, nonstandard, participle, past, rare

Examples

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sept.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

people descended from a common ancestor

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

Narrower terms: people, homefolk, house, dynasty, name, gens

7

noun

Meaning 7

the month following August and preceding October

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: September, Sep

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Gregorian calendar month

History

Etymology

A corruption of sect, influenced by Latin saeptum (“fence, enclosure”).

On analogy with creep → crept, weep → wept etc.

Across languages

Translations

7 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • French: sept. — abbreviation of September
  • Hungarian: szept. — abbreviation of September
  • Portuguese: set. — abbreviation of September
  • Tagalog: Set. — abbreviation of September
  • Thai: ก.ย. (gɔɔ.yɔɔ.) — abbreviation of September
  • Ukrainian: вер. (ver.) — abbreviation of September
  • Spanish: septiar — Translations