december

UK /dɪˈsɛmbə/ US /dɪˈsɛmbə/
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1

The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.

Holonyms: calendar year; year

Old Oakes doe not eaſily fall: / Decembers cold hand combes my head and beard, / But May ſvvimmes in my blood; and he that vvalkes / VVithout his vvooden third legge, is never old.

2

A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].

But others were less than thrilled with this new gizmo, particularly its addictive qualities. There were reports of breakups threatened and consummated over it. “Our marriage or your Sony,” one woman told her husband, who duly sold the Walkman to a bachelor friend. A young woman named December Cole, a sales executive at a beauty magazine, recalled a trip to Atlantic City with "a basically rude" man who wouldn't stop "bopping around to his own music."

3

A surname.

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