NIVOSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fourth month of the Revolutionary calendar (December and January); the snowy month

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("Nivose" is a kind of...):

Revolutionary calendar month (a month in the Revolutionary calendar)

Holonyms ("Nivose" is a part of...):

Revolutionary calendar (the calendar adopted by the first French Republic in 1793 and abandoned in 1805; dates were calculated from Sept. 22, 1792)

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