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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--bimester This week's theme: words related to time. bimester (by-MES-tuhr) noun A period of two months. [From Latin bimenstris, from bi- (two) + mensis (month).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "I quickly realized that deep winter is the appropriate bimester to join Hans Castorp on his quest." Peter M Leschak; The Snow Lotus; University of Minnesota Press; 1996. X-Bonus I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion, -- the religion of well-doing and daring, men of sturdy truth, men of integrity and feeling for others. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

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