Christmas
['krɪsməs]
Definition
(noun.) a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland.
(noun.) period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
Checked by Abram--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
Edited by Bonita
Definition
n. an annual festival originally a mass in memory of the birth of Christ held on the 25th of December.—ns. Christ′mas-box a box containing Christmas presents: a Christmas gift; Christ′mas-card a card more or less ornamented sent from friend to friend at this season; Christ′mas-eve the evening before Christmas; Christ′mas-rose or -flow′er the Helleborus niger flowering in winter; Christ′mas-tree a tree usually fir set up in a room and loaded with Christmas presents.
Typed by Josephine
Unserious Contents or Definition
A widely observed holiday on which the past nor the future is of so much interest as the present.
Inputed by Cyrus
Examples
- The quarter is not due till Christmas, but you may pay it, and have done with it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- To this invitation Father Christmas, in the name of them all, readily agreed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She came here to a Christmas ball and party Mr. Rochester gave. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Everybody had new clothes at Christmas. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Get thee down, Robert Jordan whispered to Agustín, and he turned his head and flicked his hand _Down, Down_, to Anselmo who was coming through the gap with a pine tree, carrying it over his shoulder like a Christmas tree. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I can't tell you how much I enjoyed your Christmas bundle, for I didn't get it till night and had given up hoping. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- One afternoon about a week before Christmas Edison's train jumped the track near Utica, a station on the line. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was the room in which, six months earlier, the merry Christmas party had met, to which Eustacia came secretly and as a stranger. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I gave up dealing in reddle last Christmas, said Venn. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Every Christmas Day, he retorted, as he now retorted, It's no more than your merits. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY The year came round to Christmas-time, and I had been at home above two months. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- On Christmas eve of 1801, Trevithick made the initial trip with the first successful steam road locomotive through the streets of Camborne in Cornwall, carrying passengers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Emma shall be an angel, and I will keep my spleen to myself till Christmas brings John and Isabella. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Such were the two worthies to whom Mr. Pickwick was introduced, as he took his seat at the breakfast-table on Christmas morning. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Edited by Kitty