December
The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.
Proper noun
- The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.
- Holonyms: calendar year; year
- Old Oakes doe not eaſily fall: / Decembers cold hand combes my head and beard, / But May ſvvimmes in my blood; and he that vvalkes / VVithout his vvooden third legge, is never old. - a. 1633 (date written), Thomas...
- Wearing his best suit and sunglasses, the sultan of Slowjamastan officially declared independence from the United States of America at 12:26 p.m. on December 1, 2021 as he broadcast the secession live from his open-air...
Synonyms: Yulemonth Twelfth Month
Related: Dec Dec. DEC 10ber mul:12 January February March April May June July August September October November
- A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].
- But others were less than thrilled with this new gizmo, particularly its addictive qualities. There were reports of breakups threatened and consummated over it. “Our marriage or your Sony,” one woman told her husband,...
- A surname.
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Italic *dekəm Latin decem Latin December Latin decemberbor. Old French decembrebor. Middle English December English December From Middle English December, Decembre, from Old French decembre, from Latin december (“tenth month”), from Latin decem (“ten”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; December was the tenth month in the Roman calendar.
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Related
December effect December Murders December Revolution December Uprising May and December Undecimber
Derived
December bride Decemberish Decemberly Decembrist Destroy Dick December May-December