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dodecade

dodecade is the alternative form of duodecade.

dodecade is the alternative form of dodecad.

Meaning of duodecade

Noun (1)

duodecade (plural duodecades)

  1. A period of twelve years.
    • Each Chinese New Year during a "Jupiter return"—when a duodecade has passed and the Chinese zodiac animal of your birth year comes back around—it is expected that you find some red underwear to put on for the special occasion.

Noun (2)

duodecade (plural duodecades)

  1. (nonstandard) A period of two decades, a period of 20 years.
    • When I divide the past sixty years, 1706-65, into twenty-year periods, [I discover that] in the first duodecade, 702 people died, that is, an average of 35 a year. In the second period to 1745, 850, or 42i/$ each year, perished.1996, Mary Lindemann, Health & Healing in Eighteenth-century Germany, →ISBN

Meaning of dodecad

Noun

dodecad (plural dodecads)

  1. A group or set of twelve.
    • We have also examined some of the relations between the two dodecads of signs and houses.1903, H. S. Green, Theoretical Astrology, page 63

Forms of dodecade

pluraldodecades

Questions about dodecade

What is dodecade the alternative form of?
Dodecade is the alternative form of duodecade.

Words near dodecade in the dictionary

  1. dodecacarbonate
  2. dodecachloride
  3. dodecad
  4. dodecadactyla
  5. dodecadactylum
  6. dodecade
  7. dodecadeltahedra
  8. dodecadeltahedron
  9. dodecadepsipeptide
  10. dodecadepsipeptides
  11. dodecades

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