Christmas timenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈkrɪs.məs taɪm/us/ˈkrɪs.məs taɪm/old use Christmastide, uk/ˈkrɪs.məs.taɪd/usthe period around 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
- At Christmas time we got candy and apples, but these oranges and bananas and stuff like that wasn't out then.
- Only think, it is almost Christmas time, only two days now to Christmas.
- She had now no place which she could call her own, or to which she would instinctively turn at Christmas time.
- The leaves of this tree have a very sweet odor and are in demand at Christmas time.
- They started out late in November, expecting to get back about Christmas time.