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December vs Jan - What's the difference?

december | jan |

As proper nouns the difference between december and jan

is that december is the twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year. Abbreviation: Dec or Dec.Jan is abbreviation of January|lang=en.

As a noun jan is

obsolete form of lang=en.

december

English

Alternative forms

* Decembre (obsolete)

Proper noun

(Decembers)
  • The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year. Abbreviation: Dec' or '

    • Synonyms

    *

    Derived terms

    * December effect * Decemberish * Decemberly * (December Murders) * (December Revolt) * December solstice * (w) * Decembrist * May and December, May-December * mid-December

    See also

    * Undecimber * ----

    jan

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)

    • Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (dated)

    • Etymology 2

    Shortened from (Janet) and (Janice).

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A female nickname, sometimes used as a formal given name.
  • * 1899 Paul Leicester Ford: Janice Meredith : Chapter 1:
    • "Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?" "Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan ," cried her friend.
  • * 2008 , (Stephen King), Just After Sunset , Simon and Schuster (2009), ISBN 1416586652, page 129:
    • She's startled. How long has it been since he called her Jax instead of Janet or Jan ? The last is a nickname she secretly hates. It makes her think of that syrupy-sweet actress on Lassie when she was a kid, the little boy (Timmy, his name was Timmy) always fell down a well or got bitten by a snake or trapped under a rock, and what kind of parents put a kid's life in the hands of a fucking collie?

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl), (etyl), (etyl), (etyl), modern Scandinavian etc. Jan, from (etyl) .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A male given name, in English mostly applied to foreign language speakers.
    • English diminutives of female given names ----