nivose

1. 1.

   fourth month of the Revolutionary calendar (December and January); the snowy month

   BroaderRevolutionary calendar month

   Part ofRevolutionary calendar

Other forms of nivose

plural

nivoses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nivose

What does nivose mean?

nivose means "fourth month of the Revolutionary calendar (December and January); the snowy month".

How many syllables are in nivose?

nivose has 2 syllables: ni-vose. The stress falls on "ni".

Is nivose a common word?

nivose is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.