december
/dɪˈsɛm.bɚ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.07 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.
name
A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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, who duly sold the Walkman to a bachelor friend. A young woman named December Cole, a sales executive at a beauty magazine, recalled a trip to Atlantic City with "a basically rude" man who wouldn't stop "bopping around to his own music.""
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɪˈsɛm.bɚ/
- British English: /dɪˈsɛmbə/
Inflected Forms
Decembers (plural)
Dec. (alternative, abbreviation)
Dec (alternative, abbreviation)
Dc (alternative, abbreviation)
Decembre (alternative, obsolete)
Derived Forms
Phrases
December bride
Destroy Dick December
May-December
December effect
December Murders
December Revolution
December Uprising
May and December
Frequently Paired Words
December effect
December Murders
December Revolution
December Uprising
May and December
Undecimber
Dec
Dec.