Christmastide

English

Alternative forms

Christmas-tide

Etymology

Christmas +‎ -tide (“period around a festival”)

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

Christmastide (countable and uncountable, plural Christmastides)

The Twelve Days of Christmas; the period from Christmas Day to Epiphany.
The Christmas season.

Synonyms

(Christmas season): yuletide

Translations

Christmas season — see Christmas season

See also

Advent

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