Definition of Christmas carol

1. Noun. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.

Exact synonyms: Carol
Generic synonyms: Religious Song

Definition of Christmas carol

1. Noun. a carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, or the winter season in general ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Christmas Carol

Christmas Eve
Christmas Island
Christmas Islander
Christmas Islanders
Christmas begonia
Christmas bells
Christmas berry
Christmas box
Christmas boxes
Christmas bush
Christmas cactus
Christmas cake
Christmas cakes
Christmas card
Christmas cards
Christmas carol (current term)
Christmas carols
Christmas cheer
Christmas club
Christmas clubs
Christmas cookie
Christmas cookies
Christmas cracker
Christmas crackers
Christmas creep
Christmas factor
Christmas fern
Christmas ferns
Christmas flower

Literary usage of Christmas carol

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1885)
"The humorous old knight laid a similar obligation on the women—that none of them should drink until she that ruled her husband had sung a Christmas carol. ..."

2. The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Herbert Dickinson, Joseph Quincy Adams, Joaquin Miller, Robert B. Honeyman (1883)
"So fair a corpse shall leave its home ! Should mourn and should weep, ah, well-away ! So fair a corpse shall pace to-day ! " A Christmas carol. ..."

3. American Book Prices Current (1901)
"First issues of first editions, comprising : A Christmas carol in Prose, 1843; The Chimes, 1845; The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846; The Battle of Life. ..."

4. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"^CHUZZLEWIT DISAPPOINTMENTS AND Christmas carol. 1843-1844. Sale of Chuzzlewit—Publishers and Authors—Unlucky Clause in Chuzzlewit Agreement—Resolve to have ..."

5. The Red Cross: A History of this Remarkable International Movement in the by Clara Barton (1898)
"A Christmas carol. For my 30000 Sea Island Friends. A Loving Greeting and Merry Christmas.—CZA.RA. BARTON. Lo! The Christmas morn is breaking, ..."

6. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1895)
"THE Christmas carol. " Now too is heard The hapless cripple, tuning through the streets His Carol new ; and oft amid the gloom Of midnight hours, ..."

7. Poems by Charles Kingsley (1856)
"A Christmas carol. IT chanced upon the merry, merry Christmas eve I went sighing past the church, across the moorland dreary— " Oh ! never sin and want and ..."

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