December

plural Decembers · alternative abbreviation Dec. · alternative abbreviation Dec · alternative abbreviation DEC · alternative abbreviation Dc · alternative obsolete Decembre

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

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   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.

   a. 1633 (date written), Thomas Dekker, The Wonder of a Kingdome, London: […] Robert Raworth for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1636, →OCLC, Act I, signature [A3], recto

   Wearing his best suit and sunglasses, the sultan of Slowjamastan officially declared independence from the United States of America at 12:26 p.m. on December 1, 2021 as he broadcast the secession live from his open-air government “office” in Dublândia, the capital of the Republic of Slowjamastan.

   2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN

   It was sparked by reports of an outbreak of kindness on a cold December morning in 2012.

   2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR

   Synonyms: Yulemonth, Twelfth Month

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

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   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."

   2017, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Personal Stereo, →ISBN, page 45

3. A surname.