Used in a Sentence

december

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for december.

Editorial note

According to crunchbase [1], they've raised over $1.6 Billion, last raise was $50m in December and $444.2m last September!

Examples15
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of december gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

noun

(rare) A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].

noun

The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for december.

noun

A surname.

noun

(rare) A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].

noun

The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.

Example sentences

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According to crunchbase [1], they've raised over $1.6 Billion, last raise was $50m in December and $444.2m last September!

2

Square announced their card reader in December 2009 and didn't actually launch until the following May.

3

In December 2014, they reported 1.19 B monthly active users.

4

The last records of 5th of December 2013 with a maximum power of 26.3 GW and a daily energy of 485 GWh have been exceeded by 13% resp.

5

(The last driver they shipped was in December 2014, it's been total silence since then.

6

;-) Meet 10k other hackers in December 2015 for four days in a parallel universe.

7

We launched in December 2012 our offline desktop software product for business and freelancers (niche market with a TAM of about 100,000 users) only as a subscription, no perpetual licenses available.

8

As time was running out they resorted to a bribe: In December 2012 an employee of Imtech gave an employee of the Berlin airport an envelope with 150 000 € at the side of the highway.

9

There also is a window of almost 9 years between the launch dates of these systems (January 2006 vs December 2014) That's six times the 18 months of Moore's law, or a factor of 64, so it could explain much of the difference.

10

> even if the work had been published in 1922 with proper notice, and even if that copyright had been renewed in 1949 (which the plaintiffs say it wasn't), the song still would have become public domain at midnight on December 31, 1997.

Quote examples

1

The report even says as much, page 4: "The tunnel project will not achieve STP’s original completion date of December 2015."

2

There is also this statement: " Wind power achieved a new record of 29.7 GW in peak power production at Friday, 12th of December 2014.

Proper noun examples

1

Smart money is currently on a.25 pt increase in either September or December, with September slightly more likely.

2

We also preserve a lot of food so could be tomatoes in December, just not the fresh form.

3

Funny you should mention NetHack as the latest version, 3.4.3[0], was released on the 8th of December, 2003.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use december in a sentence?

According to crunchbase [1], they've raised over $1.6 Billion, last raise was $50m in December and $444.2m last September!

What does december mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is december?

december is commonly used as noun.