sixmonth
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sixmonth (plural sixmonths)
- (dated) Half a year.
- 1848, J.S.S. Rothwell, The English-Reader: A Key to the English Language and Literature:
- 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.
- 1898, Bernard Capes, The Cornhill Magazine:
- To think that you should be the heir to that very identical house I've had my heye on a sixmonth.