What does twelvemonth mean?
Twelvemonth means (dated) A year..
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/ˈtwɛlvmʌnθ/ · noun
(dated) A year..
But last February, almost a twelvemonth back, she suddenly disappeared.
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.
For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort; […]
She was ill very nigh a twelvemonth altogether; and I had to nurse her as best as I could, and clean the house, and cook, and make her gruel and everything, for we could not afford to pay a woman to help us.
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.
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.
Use twelvemonth when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Twelvemonth means (dated) A year..
Common synonyms include year, yr.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But last February, almost a twelvemonth back, she suddenly disappeared.
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