December
proper nouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//dɪˈsɛmbə//
- United States//dɪˈsɛm.bɚ//
- //ɖɪˈsɛmbə(r)//
- //ɖɪsəmˈbɜ(r)//
- //dɪˈzɛmbə//
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
- 1
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.
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 government “office” in Dublândia, the capital of the Republic of Slowjamastan.
It was sparked by reports of an outbreak of kindness on a cold December morning in 2012.
- 2
rareA female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].
- 3
A surname.
Etymology
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.
Forms
- plural
- Decembers
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