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Platonic month

Platonic month noun: one twelfth of a Great Year, corresponding to one of the zodiacal ages (roughly 2000 years).

Noun

Platonic month (plural Platonic months)

  1. One twelfth of a Great Year, corresponding to one of the zodiacal ages (roughly 2000 years).
    • Sumerian civilization lasted for an entire Platonic month from 4000 to 2000 B.C.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 207

Forms of Platonic month

pluralPlatonic months

Questions about Platonic month

What does Platonic month mean?
Platonic month means one twelfth of a Great Year, corresponding to one of the zodiacal ages (roughly 2000 years).
What part of speech is Platonic month?
Platonic month is a noun.
What is the plural of Platonic month?
The plural of Platonic month is Platonic months.

Words near Platonic month in the dictionary

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  2. Platonic ideal
  3. Platonic ideals
  4. platonic love
  5. platonic loves
  6. Platonic month
  7. Platonic months
  8. Platonic solid
  9. Platonic solids
  10. Platonic year
  11. Platonic years

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