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# twelvemonth

«twelvemonth» in Mova's school dictionary: **A year, or twelve months** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (twelvemonths); old use

### meaning for a pupil

A year, or twelve months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelvemonth/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a year counted from a day in a story, as in «that day twelvemonth»

### examples

- That day twelvemonth the wood came ashore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelvemonth/#x1)
- I will wait here to-morrow twelvemonth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelvemonth/#x2)
- She was lonely for another twelvemonth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelvemonth/#x3)

### note

it means 12 months, so a count of 12 months, which is one year

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «twelvemonth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelvemonth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.