twelvemonth

/ˈtwɛlvmʌnθ/

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obsolete/ˈtwɛlmʌnθ/

twelvemonth noun: a year.

Noun

twelvemonth (plural twelvemonths)

(dated) A year.
- But her misfortunes were not here to end: for within a twelvemonth after the death of her husband, she was deprived of both her children by a violent fever that then raged in the country; […]1749, Sarah Fielding, The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy
- But last February, almost a twelvemonth back, she suddenly disappeared.1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 169

Take the annals of the majority of hearths for a twelvemonth, and we should be amazed at the quantity of wretchedness that would be writ in them, if writ truly.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry...
The time of year a twelvemonth past, / When Fred and I would meet, / We needs must jangle, till at last / We fought and I was beat.1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] XXV”, in A Shropshire Lad, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, The Bodley Head, published 1906...
Then they were moved away from the field that had stood fallow for a twelvemonth and there a third and last ploughing preluded the planting of the wheat and other seed for the coming year.1937, H[enry] S[tanley] Bennett, “The Peasant’s Year”, in Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions, 1150-1400 (Cambridge...

plural	twelvemonths

From Middle English twelmonth, twelfmonthe, twelfmonþe, from Old English twelfmōnþ, twelfmōnaþ, equivalent to twelve + month.

What does twelvemonth mean?: Twelvemonth means a year.
How do you use twelvemonth in a sentence?: Take the annals of the majority of hearths for a twelvemonth, and we should be amazed at the quantity of wretchedness that would be writ in them, if writ truly.
What part of speech is twelvemonth?: Twelvemonth is a noun.
How do you pronounce twelvemonth?: Twelvemonth is pronounced /ˈtwɛlvmʌnθ/.
What is the plural of twelvemonth?: The plural of twelvemonth is twelvemonths.

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