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Etymology

From Middle English December, Decembre, from Old French decembre, from Latin december (“tenth month”), from Latin decem (“ten”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; December was the tenth month in the Roman calendar.

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December (plural Decembers)

  2. The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.
    Alternative forms: Dec, Dec., DEC, 12
    Synonym: Yulemonth (religious or archaic)
    Holonyms: calendar year; year
    Comeronyms: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November
    • a. 1633 (date written), Thomas Dekker, The Wonder of a Kingdome, London: […] Robert Raworth for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1636, →OCLC, Act I, signature [A3], recto:
      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.
    • 2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN‎:
      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.
  3. (rare) A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].
    • 2017, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Personal Stereo, →ISBN, page 45:
      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."
  4. A surname.

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  • According to the 2010 United States Census, December is the 97210th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 187 individuals. December is most common among White (57.22%) and Black/African American (32.09%) individuals.

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Gregorian calendar monthsedit

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