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Definition of Christmas
1. Noun. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
Terms within: Boxing Day
Group relationships: Jan, January, Dec, December
Generic synonyms: Season
2. Noun. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland.
Generic synonyms: Quarter Day, Feast Day, Fete Day, Holy Day Of Obligation, Legal Holiday, National Holiday, Public Holiday
Group relationships: Dec, December
Definition of Christmas
1. n. 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.
Definition of Christmas
1. Proper noun. A widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian and secular customs. ¹
2. Proper noun. A personification of Christmas. ¹
3. Noun. Christmas Day, the day it is celebrated, 25 December, an English quarter day. ¹
4. Noun. Christmastide, the Twelve Days of Christmas, the season (traditionally from the 24th of December to the 6th of January) around the holiday. ¹
5. Noun. (US retailing) The period from the Friday following Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve, busy with shopping and preparations for Christmas. ¹
6. Noun. (marketing retailing) Christmas season, the end of the year period, busy with shopping and preparations for Christmas. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Christmas
1. Surname of a child with the disease subsequently called Christmas disease; first case studied in detail. See: Christmas factor, haemophilia B. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Christmas
Literary usage of Christmas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"•A NEW WAY TO KEEP OLP Christmas By MABEL CRAFT DEERING f* • AHE complexities
and immoderation of modern life have laid their deadly hand upon Christmas and ..."
2. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. by Harriet Jacobs (1862)
"Christmas FESTIVITIES. Christmas was approaching. Grandmother brought me materials,"
and I busied myself making some new garments and little playthings for ..."
3. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas-day. In Bethlehem, in Jewry,
Upon this blessed morn ; The which his mother Mary This blessed babe was ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"We find Christmas associated with Thomas Middleton [qv^j in the production of
... In the last-named there is a panegyric on Christmas for bringing pageants ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"Hone relates a discussion which took place in a Christmas party, as to which
might be the great point and crowning glory of Christmas festivity. ..."
6. Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends by Mary Huse Eastman (1915)
"Christmas masquerade. Dickinson and Skinner. Children's book Christmas before
last; or, Fruit of the fragile palm. Stockton. of Christmas stories. ..."
7. The Sketch Book by Washington Irving, Elmer Ellsworth Wentworth (1894)
"In consequence of which Parliament spent some time in consultation about the
abolition of Christmas day, passed orders to that effect, and resolved to sit ..."
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