Dictionary

sixmonth en · NOUN

Etymology

Equivalent to six + month.

Meanings

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

Forms

Deriveds

sixmonthly