twelvemonth
1
8.1
A period of twelve months equal to one year
- noun
- /ˈtwɛlvˌmʌnθ/
- Archaic
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- I've been looking for you longer than a twelvemonth and a day. "Record?" murmurs Thomas.
Examples
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- You been there nearly a twelvemonth.
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The United States alone buys goods worth more than $4,000,000 there every twelvemonth.
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They celebrated their anniversary after a whole twelvemonth of being together.
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She completed the project in less than a twelvemonth, which impressed her supervisor.
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The contract is valid for a twelvemonth, after which it must be renewed.
Synonyms
year
vstwelvemonth
∞
1.0
Twelve months or the time a planet takes to go around the sun
is only the period of twelve months not the orbital meaning
calendar year
vstwelvemonth
16
1.0
A period of twelve months that starts on January 1 and ends on December 31
is any twelve month period rather than this fixed calendar span
yr
vstwelvemonth
1
1.6
A short written form of year equal to 12 months
is the full word form rather than the shortened abbreviation
9.9
A time of twelve months used in old speech
is the current neutral term rather than archaic or dialectal
How Long
Surface Forms
twelvemonth singular
twelvemonths plural
Morphology
Etymology
Twelvemonth comes from joining twelve and month — literally 'twelve' and 'month'. So a twelvemonth is a period of twelve months, in other words a year.