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NIVOSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Nivose mean?
• NIVOSE (noun)
The noun NIVOSE has 1 sense:
1. fourth month of the Revolutionary calendar (December and January); the snowy month
Familiarity information: NIVOSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fourth month of the Revolutionary calendar (December and January); the snowy month
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Nivose" is a kind of...):
Revolutionary calendar month (a month in the Revolutionary calendar)
Holonyms ("Nivose" is a part of...):
Revolutionary calendar (the calendar adopted by the first French Republic in 1793 and abandoned in 1805; dates were calculated from Sept. 22, 1792)
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