christmas

IPA: krˈɪsmʌs

Root Word: Christmas

(originally Christianity) A festival or holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan, and secular customs, which in Western Christianity is celebrated on December 25 (Christmas Day) in most places.
A number of places in the United States:
An uninhabited mining community in Gila County, Arizona.
A census-designated place in Orange County, Florida.
An unincorporated community in Au Train Township, Alger County, Michigan.
An unincorporated community in Bolivar County, Mississippi
A surname.
(informal or Britain, regional) Sprigs of holly and other evergreen plants used as Christmas decorations; also (generally), any Christmas decorations.
(often marketing) Short for Christmas season (“the period of time before and after Christmas Day, during which people prepare for and celebrate Christmas”); Christmastime. [Advent, the period from Advent Sunday (inclusive) through the start of Epiphany.]

(transitive)
(informal) To decorate (a place) with Christmas (“sprigs of holly and other evergreen plants used as Christmas decorations, or any Christmas decorations”).
(obsolete, rare) To bring (someone) Christmas cheer.
(intransitive)
To celebrate Christmas.
To spend Christmas or the Christmas season in some place.

Red and green in colour.
(chiefly New Mexico, cooking) Of a dish: having a sauce made with red (ripe) and green (unripe) chili peppers.

Examples of "christmas" in Sentences

“All I want for christmas is my two front teeth.” xD
Link christmas is interesting, like a knife in your heart
Waterboarding for christmas is the best present for each. john m
Happy Hols, in case I don't straighten up and fly right before christmas is over. xxxooo
I understand that the festival formerly known as christmas is now known as something else.
Until christmas is over, the actual time of light for a day only differs for a minute or two.
I think once this christmas is over, we will have a much clearer indication of who is the perfered medium.
February 23rd, 2010 at 9: 15 am linzloo08 brought to you by I Want My Country Back, Inc.!! says: pezmiztix says: christmas is coming early this year … in november.
April 29th, 2008 3: 59 pm ET jiminy frickin christmas, i just looked at that picture!!! healthcare should be McBush's NUMBER ONE PRIORITY, that is a VERY sick, unhealthy looking man!!! his skin is always gray, he has serious issues with anger and self-control ... forget 3: 00 a.m. phone calls, this guy should be sleeping in a frickin hyperbaric chamber!!!!!!!!!