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THERMIDOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eleventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (July and August); the month of heat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Thermidor" is a kind of...):
Revolutionary calendar month (a month in the Revolutionary calendar)
Holonyms ("Thermidor" 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)