"twelvemonth" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtwɛlvmʌnθ/, /ˈtwɛlmʌnθ/ [obsolete] Forms: twelvemonths [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English twelmonth, twelfmonthe, twelfmonþe, from Old English twelfmōnþ, twelfmōnaþ, equivalent to twelve + month. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|twelmonth}} Middle English twelmonth, {{m|enm|twelfmonthe}} twelfmonthe, {{m|enm|twelfmonþe}} twelfmonþe, {{inh|en|ang|twelfmōnþ}} Old English twelfmōnþ, {{m|ang|twelfmōnaþ}} twelfmōnaþ, {{af|en|twelve|month}} twelve + month Head templates: {{en-noun}} twelvemonth (plural twelvemonths)
  1. (dated) A year. Tags: dated Derived forms: twelvemonth's mind, twelvemonthly
    Sense id: en-twelvemonth-en-noun-~PrEchgU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1861 December, “Autobiography of a Navvy”, in David Masson, editor, Macmillan’s Magazine, volume V, number 26, Cambridge, Cambs., London: Macmillan and Co. […], published 1862, chapter VII (Our Last Tramp), page 151, column 2",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1937, H[enry] S[tanley] Bennett, “The Peasant’s Year”, in Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions, 1150-1400 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought), Cambridge, Cambs.: At the University Press, published 1938, page 84",
          "text": "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.",
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