What is another word for nivose?

Pronunciation: [nˈɪvə͡ʊz] (IPA)

Nivose is a French word that refers to the fourth month in the French Republican Calendar. Though the term has no English synonym or translation, it can be described as the winter solstice period. Instead, several English words can be used to describe Nivose's characteristics, such as frigid, cold, icy, chilly, and wintry. Furthermore, metaphors can also be applied, such as frosty, arctic, biting, and bleak. Using such terms to describe Nivose helps people to evoke emotions or convey a certain mood during a cold winter month characterized by long, dark nights and intense cold temperatures.

Synonyms for Nivose:

What are the hypernyms for Nivose?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    season, winter, Climatic Season, Meteorological season, astronomical season.

What are the hyponyms for Nivose?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

What are the holonyms for Nivose?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.

Usage examples for Nivose

A post of vast importance as aforesaid; so much so, in fact, that no less a person than citizen Jean Paul Marat himself came to speak with Bibot on that third day of nivose in the year I of the Republic, with a view to impressing upon him the necessity of keeping his eyes open, and of suspecting every man, woman, and child indiscriminately until they had proved themselves to be true patriots.
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel"
Baroness Orczy
And that was how the Duc and Duchesse de Montreux, with their servants and family, escaped from Paris on that third day of nivose in the year I of the Republic.
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel"
Baroness Orczy
He and his two colleagues, who were Sieyes and Roger Ducos, signed, on the 5th nivose, a decree, setting forth that in future the only festivals to be celebrated by the Republic were the 1st Vendemiaire and the 14th of July, intending by this means to consecrate provisionally the recollection of the foundation of the Republic and of liberty.
"The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

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