twelve days

Yuletide carol span

Twelve days most often refers to the period between Christmas and Epiphany (December 25 to January 6), celebrated in Christian tradition and immortalized in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas." More generally, it simply denotes a span of nearly two weeks: We spent twelve days in Portugal.

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duration length

twelve daysone day

Unspecified future time

ages · eons · eternity · forever · years

temporal specificity

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For all time

eternity · indefinitely · in perpetuity · instantaneously · timeless

completeness/roundness

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Fourteen-day span

two weeks · fourteen days · thirty days

Family

twelve, days, day, twelfth, daily, daylight, daytime

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G