twelfth night

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   eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5

   BroaderChristian holy day

   Part ofJanuary

Questions about twelfth night

What does twelfth night mean?

twelfth night means "eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5".

Is twelfth night a common word?

twelfth night 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.