December — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.

   Synonyms

   Yulemonth

   Examples

   Holonyms: calendar year; year

   More examples (2)

   Old Oakes doe not eaſily fall: / Decembers cold hand combes my head and beard, / But May ſvvimmes in my blood; and he that vvalkes / VVithout his vvooden third legge, is never old.

   Wearing his best suit and sunglasses, the sultan of Slowjamastan officially declared independence from the United States of America at 12:26 p.m. on December 1, 2021 as he broadcast the secession live from his open-air government “office” in Dublândia, the capital of the Republic of Slowjamastan.

   It was sparked by reports of an outbreak of kindness on a cold December morning in 2012.

2. A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].

   Usage

   • Rare

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   But others were less than thrilled with this new gizmo, particularly its addictive qualities. There were reports of breakups threatened and consummated over it. “Our marriage or your Sony,” one woman told her husband, who duly sold the Walkman to a bachelor friend. A young woman named December Cole, a sales executive at a beauty magazine, recalled a trip to Atlantic City with "a basically rude" man who wouldn't stop "bopping around to his own music."

3. A surname.

Noun

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

   Synonyms

   Dec

   Broader terms

   Gregorian calendar month