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TWELVEMONTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does twelvemonth mean?
• TWELVEMONTH (noun)
The noun TWELVEMONTH has 1 sense:
1. a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
Familiarity information: TWELVEMONTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Context example:
in the year 1920
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...):
Context examples
Such were its immediate effects, and within a twelvemonth a more important advantage to Mrs. Price resulted from it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
If I had studied a twelvemonth, I could never have made any thing like it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But last February, almost a twelvemonth back, she suddenly disappeared.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Bingley and Jane remained at Netherfield only a twelvemonth.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The malady will wear out by and by, the doctors say, but in the meantime she has to lie down for a twelvemonth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The event which it authorized soon followed: Henry and Catherine were married, the bells rang, and everybody smiled; and, as this took place within a twelvemonth from the first day of their meeting, it will not appear, after all the dreadful delays occasioned by the general's cruelty, that they were essentially hurt by it.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
She had the remembrance of all this, she had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
They left England with the probability of being nearly a twelvemonth absent.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He coloured as he replied, "You are very kind, but I have no idea of returning into Devonshire immediately. My visits to Mrs. Smith are never repeated within the twelvemonth."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The promised letter of thanks from Mr. Collins arrived on Tuesday, addressed to their father, and written with all the solemnity of gratitude which a twelvemonth's abode in the family might have prompted.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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