DECEMBER

Pronunciation (US):

• DECEMBER (noun)
  The noun DECEMBER has 1 sense:

1. the last (12th) month of the year

  Familiarity information: DECEMBER used as a noun is very rare.

• DECEMBER (noun)

Meaning:

The last (12th) month of the year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Dec; December

Hypernyms ("December" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "December"):

December 31; New Year's Eve (the last day of the year)

Christmas; Christmas Day; Dec 25; Xmas (a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland)

Christmas; Christmastide; Christmastime; Noel; Yule; Yuletide (period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6)

mid-December (the middle part of December)

Holonyms ("December" is a part of...):

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)