sixmonth

noun

sixmonth

noun

Etymology Equivalent to six + month.

1

Dated Half a year.

  • It is hardly necessary to add that the above is entirely false, and that a gentle Zephyr is incapable of upsetting an immense vessel with 120 cannon, 1000 men, and provisions and ammunition for a sixmonth's voyage.1848, J.S.S. Rothwell, The English-Reader: A Key to the English Language and Literature:
  • To think that you should be the heir to that very identical house I've had my heye on a sixmonth.1898, Bernard Capes, The Cornhill Magazine:
Derived terms
sixmonthly

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.