December is the last month of the year. In December, early December, the December deadline.
It is always capitalised and has thirty-one days. It holds the winter solstice around the twenty-first, the shortest day in the northern hemisphere, and Christmas on the twenty-fifth. The name means tenth month, from the old Roman calendar beginning in March — so December, November, October and September are all two out and have been for about two thousand years. Note that December is the busiest retail month by a very wide margin.
1noundecemberThe last month of the year.
“The office party is always in the second week of December.”
december is a month.
Old French
decembre
Middle English
December
English
December
English, today
december
December comes from Middle English December, from Old French decembre. 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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