Christmas Evenoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˌkrɪs.məs ˈiːv/us/ˌkrɪs.məs ˈiːv/24 December, the day before Christmas Day
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Religious festivals
- advent
- Ascension Day
- Ash Wednesday
- Chanukah
- Christmas
- Easter Day
- Easter Sunday
- Eid
- epiphany
- feast
- Holy Week
- Mardi Gras
- movable feast
- Noel
- Palm Sunday
- Shrove Tuesday
- the Day of Atonement
- the holiday season
- Twelfth Night
- Whitsun
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Examples from literature
- Every Christmas Eve, at midnight, the bells rang out the sacred chorus.
- It was Christmas Eve, and the great soft flakes of snow that fell continuously gave every indication of a white Christmas.
- It was Christmas Eve, with its loads a holly and mistletoe, and the town was very full of strangers who had come in from all parts of the country on account of the day.
- It was on Christmas Eve, you remember, he came to tell us.
- The next day was Christmas Eve.