Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Christmas"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Christmas \Christ"mas\, n. [Christ + mass.]
An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a
legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often
celebrated by a particular church service, and also by
special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.

{Christmas box}.
(a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas.
(b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and
servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift.

{Christmas carol}, a carol sung at, or suitable for,
Christmas.

{Christmas day}. Same as {Christmas}.

{Christmas eve}, the evening before Christmas.

{Christmas fern} (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern
({Aspidium acrostichoides}), which is much used for
decoration in winter.

{Christmas flower}, {Christmas rose}, the black hellebore, a
poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern
Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers
midwinter.

{Christmas tree}, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to
be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated
on Christmas eve.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

Christmas
n 1: period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 [syn: {Christmas}, {Christmastide},
{Christmastime}, {Yule}, {Yuletide}, {Noel}]
2: a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a
quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland [syn: {Christmas},
{Christmas Day}, {Xmas}, {Dec 25}]
v : spend Christmas; "We were christmassing in New York" [syn: {Christmas}]


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