"dec" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: gregorian calendar month - a month in the Gregorian calendar
has:
- december 31, new year's eve - the last day of the year
- christmas, christmas day, dec 25, xmas - a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
- christmas, christmastide, christmastime, noel, yule, yuletide - period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
- mid-december - the middle part of December
is a part of: gregorian calendar, new style calendar - the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752

same as: december
referred to in: astronomy, uranology - the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole

is a type of: angular distance - the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer

same as: celestial latitude, declination