About The Word Christmas
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Christmas
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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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