Christmas

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]


  
     {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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "Christmas":
     Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation,
     Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas,
     Candlemas Day, Carnival, Corpus Christi, Easter, Easter Monday,
     Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ember days, Epiphany,
     Good Friday, Halloween, Hallowmas, Holy Thursday, Holy Week,
     Lady Day, Lammas, Lammas Day, Lammastide, Lent, Lententide,
     Mardi Gras, Martinmas, Maundy Thursday, Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day,
     Michaelmastide, Nativity, Palm Sunday, Pancake Day, Passion Week,
     Pentecost, Quadragesima, Quadragesima Sunday, Septuagesima,
     Shrove Tuesday, Trinity Sunday, Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide,
     Whit-Tuesday, White Sunday, Whitmonday, Whitsun, Whitsunday,
     Whitsuntide, Whitweek, noel, yule, yuletide
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Christmas, FL
    Zip code(s): 32709
  Christmas, MI
    Zip code(s): 49862

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Christmas, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
     Population (2000):    1162
     Housing Units (2000): 446
     Land area (2000):     3.572145 sq. miles (9.251812 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    3.572145 sq. miles (9.251812 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            12250
     Located within:       Florida (FL), FIPS 12
     Location:             28.532428 N, 80.993956 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     32709
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Christmas, FL
      Christmas