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TWELVEMONTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
Example:
in the year 1920
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("twelvemonth" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "twelvemonth"):
Christian year; church year (the year in the ecclesiastical calendar; especially feast days and special seasons)
Holy Year ((Roman Catholic Church) a period of remission from sin (usually granted every 25 years))
New Year (the calendar year just begun)
365 days; common year (a year that is not a leap year)
366 days; bissextile year; intercalary year; leap year (a calendar year with an extra day added in February)
off year (a year in which no major political elections are held)
off year (a year in which productivity is low or inferior)
calendar year; civil year (the year (reckoned from January 1 to December 31) according to Gregorian calendar)
financial year; fiscal year (any accounting period of 12 months)
annum ((Latin) year)
year of grace (any year of the Christian era)
Y2K (the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar)
Holonyms ("twelvemonth" is a part of...):
decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)
Context examples:
And then, if I could convey to you the glow of his soul when he does see them again; when, coming back after a twelvemonth's absence, perhaps, and obliged to put into another port, he calculates how soon it be possible to get them there, pretending to deceive himself, and saying, 'They cannot be here till such a day,' but all the while hoping for them twelve hours sooner, and seeing them arrive at last, as if Heaven had given them wings, by many hours sooner still!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
As Harriet now lived, the Martins could not get at her, without seeking her, where hitherto they had wanted either the courage or the condescension to seek her; for since her refusal of the brother, the sisters never had been at Mrs. Goddard's; and a twelvemonth might pass without their being thrown together again, with any necessity, or even any power of speech.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I did not see her again for a twelvemonth.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
What he might say on the subject a twelvemonth after, must be referred to the imagination of husbands and wives.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The subject which had been so warmly canvassed between their parents, about a twelvemonth ago, was now brought forward again.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I shall never forget his flying Henry's kite for him that very windy day last Easter—and ever since his particular kindness last September twelvemonth in writing that note, at twelve o'clock at night, on purpose to assure me that there was no scarlet fever at Cobham, I have been convinced there could not be a more feeling heart nor a better man in existence.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
They had not been here a twelvemonth when he left England.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Dashwood took the house for a twelvemonth; it was ready furnished, and she might have immediate possession.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
On the stairs were a troop of little boys and girls, whose eagerness for their cousin's appearance would not allow them to wait in the drawing-room, and whose shyness, as they had not seen her for a twelvemonth, prevented their coming lower.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
No, I dare say, nor if he were to be gone a twelvemonth, would you ever write to him, nor he to you, if it could be helped.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
