Christmas

Alternative forms

 * Xmas

Etymology
From late Cristesmæsse:; as if.

Proper noun

 * 1) A widely celebrated festival commemorating the nativity of Jesus Christ, incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian and secular customs.
 * Do you celebrate Christmas?
 * 1) A personification of Christmas.

Noun

 * 1) Christmas Day, the day it is celebrated, 25 December, an English quarter day.
 * This Christmas we'll open presents then go to grandma's for dinner.
 * 1) Christmastide, the Twelve Days of Christmas, the season (traditionally from the 24th of December to the 6th of January) around the holiday.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 The period from the Friday following Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve, busy with shopping and preparations for Christmas.
 * The last three Christmases have been good for retailers.
 * 1)  Christmas season, the end of the year period, busy with shopping and preparations for Christmas.
 * The Christmas shoppers spent less this December, than last year, but our store will probably see just as many returned items during the twelve days of Christmas.

Synonyms

 * Yule

Derived terms

 * Category:English words derived from: Christmas


 * Christmas box
 * Christmas cake
 * Christmas card
 * Christmas carol
 * Christmas club
 * Christmas cracker
 * Christmas Day
 * Christmas Eve


 * Christmas Island
 * Christmas present
 * Christmas pudding
 * Christmassy
 * Christmas star
 * Christmas stocking
 * Christmastide
 * Christmas time


 * Christmas tree
 * Father Christmas
 * Merry Christmas
 * like turkeys voting for Christmas
 * Twelve Days of Christmas
 * white Christmas
 * X-mas/Xmas
 * Christmas is coming

Thesaurus
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, Palm Sunday, Pancake Day, Passion Week, Pentecost, Quadragesima, Quadragesima Sunday, Septuagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Trinity Sunday, Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide, Whit-Tuesday, White Sunday, Whitmonday, Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whitsuntide, Whitweek, noel, yule, yuletide

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Kersfees
 * Albanian: Kërshëndella
 * Alutiiq:
 * Arabic: عيد الميلاد, الكريسماس
 * Armenian: Սուրբ Ծնունդ
 * Aromanian: cărciun
 * Azeri: Milad bayramı
 * Basque: Eguberri
 * Belarusian: Каляды, Раство, Ражджаство, Ражаство, Нараджэнне Хрыстова
 * Bengali: ক্রিসমাস
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: Nedeleg
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 聖誕節, 圣诞节
 * Cornish: Nadelek
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: Blunya
 * Faroese:
 * Filipino: pasko
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: Nadal
 * Georgian: შობა
 * German:
 * Greek: Χριστούγεννα
 * Gujarati: નાતાલ
 * Hawaiian: ,
 * Hebrew: חג המולד
 * Hindi: क्रिसमस, बड़ा दिन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: クリスマス
 * Javanese: Natal
 * Khmer: បុណ្យណូអែល, ណូអែល
 * Korean:


 * Latin: nativitas, Christi Natalis
 * Latvian: Ziemassvētki
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon: Weihnacht
 * Luxembourgish: Chrëschtdag
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: Hari Natal
 * Maltese: Milied
 * Manx: ,
 * Mongolian: Христосын Мэндэлсэн Едeр (Christosyn Mėndėlsėn Jeder)
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: Nadal
 * Ojibwe:
 * Old English: Cristesmæsse
 * Papiamentu: Pasku
 * Persian: کریسمس, عید میلاد مسیح, عید نوئل
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, Naşterea lui Isus Cristos , Naşterea Domnului
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Nollaig
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Божић, Рождество
 * Roman: Božić, Roždestvo
 * Sicilian: Natali
 * Slovak: Vianoce
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: Kresemese
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan: Bedaki
 * Swahili: Krismasi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Pasko
 * Thai: คริสต์มาส
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: Різдво
 * Urdu: کرسمس
 * Vietnamese: Nô-en, Giáng sinh
 * Volapük: kritid, kritidazäl
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: Krysttiid
 * Yiddish:
 * Zulu: Ukhisimuzi

Noun

 * 1) Christmas present