December
UK/dɪˈsɛmbə//dɪˈsɛm.bɚ/
December proper noun: the twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.
Proper noun
December (plural Decembers)
- 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.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
- Synonyms:
- Yulemonth, Twelfth Month
- 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...2017, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Personal Stereo, →ISBN, page 45
- A surname.
December meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
December in Hindi
- twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar
- दिसम्बर disambar
December in Tamil
- twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar
- டிசம்பர் ṭicampar
December in Marathi
- twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar
- डिसेंबर ḍisembar
December in Urdu
- twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar
- دِسَمْبَر disambar
More languagesFewer languages
- December in Bengali
- ডিসেম্বর ḍiśembor
- December in Telugu
- డిసెంబరు ḍisembaru
- December in Malayalam
- ഡിസംബർ ḍisambaṟ
- December in Kannada
- ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ ḍisembar
- December in Punjabi
- ਦਸੰਬਰ dasambar
- December in Gujarati
- ડિસેમ્બર ḍisembar
- December in Odia
- ଡିସେମ୍ବର ḍisembara
- December in Sinhala
- දෙසැම්බර් desæmbar
- December in Assamese
- ডিচেম্বৰ disembor
- December in Pashto
- سامبر disãmbar, دسمبر desambar
- December in Tagalog
- Disyembre
- December in Arabic
- دِيسِمْبِر disimbir, دِيسَمْبِر disambir, كَانُون الْأَوَّل kānūn al-ʔawwal
- December in Malay
- Disember
- December in Indonesian
- Desember
- December in Persian
- دسامبر desâmbr, دسمبر disimbar
- December in Thai
- ธันวาคม tan-waa-kom
- December in Vietnamese
- tháng Mười hai, tháng Mười Hai, tháng mười hai
- December in Myanmar
- ဒီဇင်ဘာ dijangbha, ဆယ့်နှစ်လ hcai.hnacla.
- Dhivehi
- ޑިސެމްބަރު ḍisem̊baru
- Dzongkha
- སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ། spyi zla bcu gnyis pa
Examples of December in a sentence
- 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:
- 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:
Synonyms of December
Forms of December
| plural | Decembers |
|---|---|
| alternative abbreviation | Dec. |
| alternative abbreviation | Dec |
| alternative abbreviation | DEC |
| alternative abbreviation | Dc |
| alternative form (obsolete) | Decembre |
Origin of December
From Middle English December, Decembre, from Old French decembre, from Latin december (“tenth month”), from Latin decem (“ten”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; December was the tenth month in the Roman calendar.
Words formed from December
Phrases with December
Words that rhyme with December
Questions about December
- What does December mean?
- December means the twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.
- What is December in Hindi?
- December in Hindi is दिसम्बर (disambar). See December meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use December in a sentence?
- It was sparked by reports of an outbreak of kindness on a cold December morning in 2012.
- What part of speech is December?
- December is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce December?
- December is pronounced /dɪˈsɛmbə/ (UK).
Words near December in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: December (page history and authors); ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ડિસેમ્બર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ডিচেম্বৰ (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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