Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

glorious twelfth

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English

Syllables: glo-ri-ous twelfth
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

12 August, the start of the shooting season for red grouse, and to a lesser extent the ptarmigan, in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Inflected Forms

the Glorious Twelfth (canonical)

Questions

What does glorious twelfth mean?: 12 August, the start of the shooting season for red grouse, and to a lesser extent the ptarmigan, in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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