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Definition of Christmas Day
1. 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 Day
1. Noun. the day on which Christmas is celebrated. Usually held on December 25 in the West, and January 7 in some Eastern Orthodox churches. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Christmas Day
Literary usage of Christmas Day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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 ..."
2. The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving (1906)
"Presently a choir of small voices chanted th an old Christmas carol, the burden
of which was — Rejoice, our Saviour he was born On Christmas day in the ..."
3. Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a by John Brand, William Carew Hazlitt (1905)
"Christmas Day.—This is observed without any real authority or probability ...
Christmas Day, in the primitive Church, was always observed as the Sabbath Day ..."
4. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"... and he had a surprising fondness for wandering about in poor neighbourhoods
on Christmas-day, past the areas of shabby genteel houses in Somers or ..."
5. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1816)
"We dressed a piece of meal for our customers, as I usually do at Christmas:
tins »as dressed on Christmas day ; the customers came on Tues- day night and ..."
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