Dictionary Entry

twelvemonth

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈtwɛlvmʌnθ/Used In Literature ↓

A year.

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Common Phrases

. twelvemonthago twelvemonthperiod twelvemonthsince twelvemonthtwelvemonth lasttwelvemonth daytwelvemonth timetwelvemonth another

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Poetry examples for “twelvemonth”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Say, lad, have you things to do .
This time of year twelvemonth past .
Along the field as we came by

The skies, they are not always raining
Nor grey the twelvemonth through;
And I shall meet good days and mirth,

The fifth was friendship mix'd with bliss:
But, when a twelvemonth pass'd away,
Jack found his goddess made of clay;

For Kent Street well may say,
That, had she liv’d a twelvemonth more--
She had not died to-day.

The fifth was friendship mix’d with bliss:
But when a twelvemonth pass’d away,
Jack found his goddess made of clay;

For Hog Reeve in March Meeting here in Warren.
I could have told them any time this twelvemonth
The Arthur Amy I was married to