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Twelfth night Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Twelfth night has 2 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5

Proper Noun
1

A Christian festival marking the coming of Epiphany and concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas, traditionally falling on the evening of January 5 (i.e., on the eve of Twelfth Day, January 6), but also sometimes defined as falling on the evening of January 6 (i.e., on the evening of Twelfth Day itself).

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
Christian holy day
Rhyming Words
ght ight ought dight bight tight fight eight night might light pight aught hight aight right wight sight voight blight
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