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PLUVIOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pluviose mean? 

PLUVIOSE (noun)
  The noun PLUVIOSE has 1 sense:

1. fifth month of the Revolutionary calendar (January and February); the rainy monthplay

  Familiarity information: PLUVIOSE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLUVIOSE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Fifth month of the Revolutionary calendar (January and February); the rainy month

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

Revolutionary calendar month (a month in the Revolutionary calendar)

Holonyms ("Pluviose" 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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