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Christmas

Christmas Meaning & Definition
Christmas Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Christmas?

[n] a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
[n] period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
[v] spend Christmas; "We were christmassing in New York"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Christmas: Christmas Day | Christmastide | Christmastime | Dec 25 | Noel | Xmas | Yule | Yuletide

Related Terms | Find terms related to Christmas: Advent | Allhallowmas | Allhallows | Allhallowtide | Annunciation | Annunciation Day | Ascension Day | Ash Wednesday | Candlemas | Candlemas Day | Carnival | Corpus Christi | Easter | Easter Monday | Easter Saturday | Easter Sunday | Eastertide | Ember days | Epiphany | Good Friday | Halloween | Hallowmas | Holy Thursday | Holy Week | Lady Day | Lammas | Lammas Day | Lammastide | Lent | Lententide | Mardi Gras | Martinmas | Maundy Thursday | Michaelmas | Michaelmas Day | Michaelmastide | Nativity | noel | Palm Sunday | Pancake Day | Passion Week | Pentecost | Quadragesima | Quadragesima Sunday | Septuagesima | Shrove Tuesday | Trinity Sunday | Twelfth-day | Twelfth-tide | White Sunday | Whitmonday | Whitsun | Whitsunday | Whitsuntide | Whit-Tuesday | Whitweek | yule | yuletide

See Also | Boxing Day | Dec | December | holy day of obligation | Jan | January | legal holiday | national holiday | pass | quarter day | season | spend

Christmas In Webster's Dictionary

\Christ"mas\, n. [Christ + mass.] An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality. {Christmas box}. (a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas. (b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift. {Christmas carol}, a carol sung at, or suitable for, Christmas. {Christmas day}. Same as {Christmas}. {Christmas eve}, the evening before Christmas. {Christmas fern} (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern ({Aspidium acrostichoides}), which is much used for decoration in winter. {Christmas flower}, {Christmas rose}, the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter. {Christmas tree}, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.

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