Christmas Definition

krĭsməs
noun
A holiday on Dec. 25 celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.
Webster's New World

Christmastime.

Webster's New World
December 25, the day on which this feast is observed as a public holiday in many countries.
American Heritage
Christmastide.
American Heritage

(US, retailing) 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.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
pronoun

A widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian and secular customs.

Do you celebrate Christmas?
Wiktionary

A personification of Christmas.

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Other Word Forms of Christmas

Noun

Singular:
Christmas
Plural:
christmases

Origin of Christmas

  • Middle English Cristemas from Old English Crīstes mæsse Christ's festival Crīst Christ Christ mæsse festival Mass

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From late Old English Cristesmæsse (“Christ's mass, Christ's festival”); as if Christ +‎ -mas.

    From Wiktionary

Christmas Sentence Examples

  • On Christmas Eve, we sit in front of the fire and take turns reading Christmas stories.

  • I should like to be at home on Christmas day.

  • Put that on your Christmas wish-list.

  • The mummers (some of the house serfs) dressed up as bears, Turks, innkeepers, and ladies--frightening and funny--bringing in with them the cold from outside and a feeling of gaiety, crowded, at first timidly, into the anteroom, then hiding behind one another they pushed into the ballroom where, shyly at first and then more and more merrily and heartily, they started singing, dancing, and playing Christmas games.

  • My dear Mother, Yesterday I sent you a little Christmas box.

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