may: Meaning and Definition of

may

1. (used to express possibility): It may rain.
2. (used to express opportunity or permission): You may enter.
3. (used to express contingency, esp. in clauses indicating condition, concession, purpose, result, etc.): I may be wrong but I think you would be wise to go. Times may change but human nature stays the same.
4. (used to express wish or prayer): May you live to an old age.
5. (used to express ability or power.) Cf..

may

1. a maiden.

May

1. the fifth month of the year, containing 31 days.
2. the early part of one's life, esp. the prime: a young woman in her May.
3. the festivities of May Day.
4. (l.c.)the hawthorn.
5. a female given name.

1. (l.c.) to gather flowers in the spring: when we were maying.

May

1. a cape at the SE tip of New Jersey, on Delaware Bay.