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English
Etymology
Equivalent to six + month.
Noun
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.
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