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Christmas pay bonus; Christmas box.
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The time at or near All Hallows'.
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(England, Wales, Northern Ireland) A public holiday on the last Monday in August.
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A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve on which there is not any snowfall or ground covering of snow.
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Alternative form of borrowing days [(Ireland, Scotland) The last three days of March, supposed in Scottish and Irish folklore to have been borrowed by March from April, and to be especially stormy.]
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(business, marketing) The day or days (boxing week) following Christmas (December 25th) when stores have large reductions.
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Alternative letter-case form of boxing week [(business, marketing) The period after Christmas (December 25th) until New Year's (or longer), when stores offer large discounts.]
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(specifically) A (usually traditional) religious or secular song sung at Christmastime.
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(Britain, slang) Christmas, especially with regard to its more secular and commercial aspects.
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A pseudonym for a secret Santa.
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Obsolete form of Christmas (“festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ”). [A festival/holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan and secular customs, which is celebrated on December 25 in most places.]
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(Christianity) A church service for children incorporating Christingles, usually held during Advent.
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A personification of the baby Jesus who, in German speaking parts of Europe, takes the place of Santa Claus
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A festival/holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan and secular customs, which is celebrated on December 25 in most places.
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(historical) A bonus or gift given by an employer to an employee, by a master/mistress to his/her servants, or by a householder to delivery persons at Christmas time, traditionally on Boxing Day.
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A greeting card that is decorated in a manner that celebrates Christmas.
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Food and drink, especially alcoholic beverages, consumed around the Christmas holiday.
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(banking) A type of savings scheme in which a person pays in money through the course of a year and gets back a total at around Christmas time ready to buy gifts or treats for Christmas. Such schemes have been run by banks and retailers and generally only involve fairly small amounts of money.
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The inexorable tendency for the commercial aspects of Christmas to appear earlier every year.
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The day on which Christmas is celebrated. It is December 25 in the West, and January 7 in some Eastern Orthodox churches.
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The evening before Christmas Day.
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A box of small gifts sometimes given on Christmas Eve, in addition to the main presents given on Christmas Day.
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A written list of people one is going to send cards or presents to at Christmas.
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Synonym of Yule log (“type of cake”)
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A Christmas themed street market held during the four weeks of Advent.
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A contemporary Christmas.
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(US, informal, retail and marketing) The winter season starting around Thanksgiving (typically Black Friday) and ending at or about New Year's Eve.
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A stocking hung up by a child on Christmas Eve to be filled with gifts, ostensibly by Santa Claus.
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A conifer used during the Christmas holiday season, typically decorated with lights and ornaments and often a star or angel at its tip.
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Alternative form of Christmastide. [The Twelve Days of Christmas; the period from Christmas Day to Epiphany.]
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Alternative spelling of Christmas time [The Christmas season]
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(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of Christmas card [A greeting card that is decorated in a manner that celebrates Christmas.]
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The state of being Christmasy
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Alternative form of Christmas-like [Resembling or characteristic of Christmas.]
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(rare) In a Christmassy manner.
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The state of being Christmassy
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Resembling or having feelings of Christmas; festive.
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Christmas season; Christmastide; yuletide
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Uncommon spelling of Christmassy. [Resembling or having feelings of Christmas; festive.]
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The fifth reindeer of Santa Claus.
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Alternative form of Chrimbo [(Britain, slang) Christmas, especially with regard to its more secular and commercial aspects.]
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The first reindeer of Santa Claus.
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The seventh reindeer of Santa Claus.
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A traditional Chinese holiday falling on the ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese calendar.
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The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
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(folklore) A mythical figure said to bring presents to people (especially children) at Christmas time.
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The period around Christmas and New Year.
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A nondenominational holiday featured in a Seinfeld episode, now celebrated (seriously or otherwise) on December 23rd.
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A fictional ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, who visits Ebenezer Scrooge accompanied by a great feast in order to show him events of the current Christmas.
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(humorous or derogatory) Christmas, regarded as a consumerist event for the purchasing of gifts
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(US, marketing) The Monday before Christmas, used as a shopping event to order last-minute gifts for shipping before Christmas Day.
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Alternative form of Merry Christmas
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(Scotland) A celebration or gift for New Year's Eve.
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(US) The holiday season or Christmas season, especially when paired with a year.
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Alternative form of holidayfic [(fandom slang) A fanfic focusing on the celebration of a holiday, particularly Christmas.]
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(US, Canada) The period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur, such as Halloween, American Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa
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(historical) Synonym of Candlemas
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September 19, a humorous holiday during which observers are supposed to talk like pirates.
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Alternative spelling of Kris Kringle [Synonym of Christkind (“a personification of the baby Jesus who, in German-speaking parts of Europe, takes the place of Santa Claus in bringing gifts to people at Christmastime”)]
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Synonym of secret Santa (“a Christmas tradition where a group of people give anonymous gifts to each other, with each person randomly selected to give a gift to one other person; a person who anonymously gives a present to another in such a gift exchange”)
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Alternative spelling of Kris Kringle [Synonym of Christkind (“a personification of the baby Jesus who, in German-speaking parts of Europe, takes the place of Santa Claus in bringing gifts to people at Christmastime”)]
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A pagan and Wiccan holiday celebrating the second harvest at the time of the autumnal equinox.
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A period of calm, warm weather often experienced about the time of Martinmas; Indian summer.
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The spring month of May.
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A pagan holiday and Wiccan Sabbat.
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24th June, an English quarter day.
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Christmas (Christian or secular holiday held on December 25), presented as linked to Mithras
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(by extension) Christmas.
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The holiday commemorating (the beginning of) the new year.
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The holiday occurring on the last day of the year, December 31st.
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(humorous) December 25 through January 4, Sir Isaac Newton's birthday (in the Gregorian calendar).
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(Germanic paganism) The goddess of the night in Heathenry.
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(literary or old-fashioned) Christmas.
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Alternative spelling of noel [A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol.]
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Alternative form of noel [A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol.]
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Santa Claus; a figure derived from traditions surrounding the historical Saint Nicholas who is said to bring Christmas presents to children on Christmas Day.
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(folklore) A figure said to bring presents to people (especially children) at Christmas time.
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Alternative form of Santa Claus [(folklore) A figure said to bring presents to people (especially children) at Christmas time.]
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A red and white hat associated with Santa Claus, approximately conical with a white bobble on top.
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Part of a department store, etc., installed in the period before Christmas and decorated to resemble a cavern, where children can meet a person dressed as Santa Claus and sometimes receive small gifts.
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The mythical structure, usually envisioned as located at the North Pole, where Santa Claus and a large number of capable elves work tirelessly and gladly year-round to produce all of the toys and other gifts to be delivered throughout the world on Christmas Day.
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Pronunciation spelling of Santa Claus. [(folklore) A figure said to bring presents to people (especially children) at Christmas time.]
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A greeting used by well-wishers near the Christmas season or holiday season
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A Christmas tradition where a group of people give anonymous gifts to each other, with each person randomly selected to give a gift to one other person.
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(by extension) The last two days (i.e. the sixth and seventh) of the saturnalia.
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A period of warm weather in early November.
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(Germanic paganism) A festival celebrated in Heathenry which marks the beginning of spring, held on the spring equinox.
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A pagan holiday and Wiccan Sabbat
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(informal) The season around Thanksgiving.
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(informal) A celebration held between Thanksgiving and Christmas, especially because a family is unable to get together at either of the other dates.
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(UK, historical) The former custom of going from house to house on St Thomas's day (December 21) to beg for small gifts.
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Abbreviation of Thanksgiving. [(Canada, US) Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada, and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States.]
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A traditional Catalan Christmas character made by decorating a short log. It is “fed” with gifts each day from December 8th until Christmas, at which time it is sung to and beaten with sticks until it “poops”.
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A decorative cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth Night (which is either the evening of January 5th or of January 6th, depending on interpretation).
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A Christian festival marking the coming of Epiphany and concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas, traditionally falling on the evening of January 5 (i.e., on the eve of Twelfth Day, January 6), but also sometimes defined as falling on the evening of January 6 (i.e., on the evening of Twelfth Day itself).
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An 18th-century English Christmas carol which describes a series of successively grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas.
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(slang) The period in between Christmas and New Year, typically December 27th-30th where Boxing Day is observed, and December 26th-30th elsewhere.
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(slang) Alternative form of Twixmas [(slang) The period in between Christmas and New Year, typically December 27th-30th where Boxing Day is observed, and December 26th-30th elsewhere.]
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Alternative form of un-Christmassy [Not Christmas-like.]
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(Internet) A Christmas celebration participated in by making vlogs every day in December until Christmas.
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Walpurgisnacht ("Walpurga's night"), a feast of witchcraft in German folklore, observed on 30 April.
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(US, politics, US politics, derogatory) An alleged plot by atheists and liberals to remove Christianity from Christmas or ban the festival of Christmas itself.
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A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve on which there is a ground covering of snow or snowfall.
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(Germanic paganism) A festival celebrated in Heathenry which marks the beginning of fall, held on the autumn equinox.
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Alternative form of Xmas
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(informal) Abbreviation of Christmas. [A festival/holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan and secular customs, which is celebrated on December 25 in most places.]
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Abbreviation of Christmassy. [Resembling or having feelings of Christmas; festive.]
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Abbreviation of Christmastide. [The Twelve Days of Christmas; the period from Christmas Day to Epiphany.]
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Alternative letter-case form of Yule [Christmastide, the Christmas season, the Twelve Days of Christmas (between December 25ᵗʰ and January 5ᵗʰ).]
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One of several trolls, children of the ogress Grýla, who, according to Icelandic folktales, arrive one each day from December 12th through December 25, and leave one each night from December 25 through January 6. The Yule lads are associated with tricks and mischief, but also with carrying off naughty children in a burlap bag and eating them.
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A large log traditionally burned on Christmas Eve.
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(chiefly paganism) A yuletide decoration comprising a potted tree decorated with ribbons and religious symbols.
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(chiefly paganism) A yuletide decoration comprising a ring of greenery decorated with ribbons.
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The celebration or festival of Yule; midwinter feast.
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(rare) The typical month of the Yuletide; the month in which Yule typically occurs; Christmas month; December.
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(dated, or Germanic Neo-Paganism) The period of celebration of a pre-Christian festival associated with the (northern) winter solstice, later absorbed into the festival of Christmas (but sometimes recreated by modern neo-pagans).
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