Christmas
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Christmas/ˈkrɪsməs/
▶noun (pl. Christmases)
- 1 (also Christmas Day) the annual Christian festival celebrating Christ's birth, held on 25 December.
- 2 the period immediately before and after Christmas Day.
– derivatives
Christmassy adjective.
Christmassy adjective.
'Christmas' also found in these Oxford entries:
advent
- bauble
- Boxing Day
- Burra Din
- carol
- carol singing
- Chrimbo
- Christingle
- Christmas box
- Christmas cactus
- Christmas cake
- Christmas disease
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas pudding
- Christmas rose
- Christmas tree
- El Niño
- fairy lights
- Father Christmas
- Grinch
- mince pie
- mummers' play
- nativity
- nativity play
- Noel
- panettone
- pantomime
- parang
- rose
- Santa Claus
- Scrooge
- spruce
- statutory
- stocking
- stocking filler
- tourtière
- Twelfth Night
- wait
- wassail
- watchnight
- white Christmas
- Xmas
- Yule
- yule log
