December
December
noun
/dɪˈsembə(r)/
uncountable, countable
(abbreviation Dec.)
​the 12th and last month of the year
She was born in December.
(British English) The meeting is on the fifth of December/December the fifth.
(North American English) The meeting is on December fifth.
We went to Japan last December.
I arrived at the end of December.
last December's celebrations
It was a cold December morning.
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Word Origin
Middle English: from Latin, from decem ‘ten’ (being originally the tenth month of the Roman year).