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sixmonth

sixmonth noun: half a year.

Noun

sixmonth (plural sixmonths)

  1. (dated) Half a year.
    • It is hardly necessary to add that the above is entirely false, and that a gentle Zephyr is incapable of upsetting an immense vessel with 120 cannon, 1000 men, and provisions and ammunition for a sixmonth's voyage.1848, J.S.S. Rothwell, The English-Reader: A Key to the English Language and Literature
    • To think that you should be the heir to that very identical house I've had my heye on a sixmonth.1898, Bernard Capes, The Cornhill Magazine

Forms of sixmonth

pluralsixmonths

Origin of sixmonth

Equivalent to six + month.

Words formed from sixmonth

  • sixmonthly

Questions about sixmonth

What does sixmonth mean?
Sixmonth means half a year.
What part of speech is sixmonth?
Sixmonth is a noun.
What is the plural of sixmonth?
The plural of sixmonth is sixmonths.

Words near sixmonth in the dictionary

  1. sixling
  2. sixlings
  3. Sixmilebridge
  4. Sixmilecross
  5. sixmo
  6. sixmonth
  7. sixmos
  8. sixness
  9. sixpack
  10. sixpence
  11. sixpences

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