December
/dɪˈsɛmbə
/noun
The twelfth month of the year, in the northern hemisphere usually considered the first month of winter: the fuel shortage worsened during December...
- This time last year we had doom and gloom, and December was the worst month of the year for growth.
- In December, the society announced it had two months to find the money to save the festival.
- Like most Decembers in the northern United States, the weather was bitterly cold, and Burdick struggled emotionally because she was over 150 miles away from her family.
Origin
Middle English: from Latin, from decem 'ten' (being originally the tenth month of the Roman year).
Rhymes
- Chattahoochee River
- Chattanooga
- chattel
- chattel mortgage
- chatter
- chatterbot
- chatterbox
- chatterer
- Chatterton, Thomas
- chattery
- chattily
- chattiness
- chatty
- chat-up
- Chaubunagungamaug, Lake
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chaucerian
- chaudhuri
- Chaudiere River
- chauffeur
- chauffeuse
- Chauliac, Guy de
- chaulmoogra
- chaulmoogra oil
- Chaumes