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december
/dɪˈsɛm.bɚ/
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What does december mean?
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.
- A surname.
More meanings (1)
proper noun
- (rare) A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈsɛm.bɚ/
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Miss Harris looked somewhat surprised, as well she might, to hear a man inquiring for garden rakes in the middle of December.
The accumulation of the clouds in the atmosphere prevented all observation on the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th of December.
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We prefer to give the account as it appears in a leading article in the Times for December 13th of that year.
It is recorded of a certain little individual that he was wont to dive through the icy water on a December day.
In December I noticed in my walk where they had made excursions of a few yards to an orchard for frozen apples.