Christmas Day

English

Etymology

From Middle English Cristemasse day, from Old English Cristes mæssedæġ (“Christmas Day”, literally “day of Christ's mass”). Now equivalent to Christmas + day.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Christmas Day (plural Christmas Days)

1. The day on which Christmas is celebrated. It is December 25 in the West, and January 7 in some Eastern Orthodox churches.
   • 1737, Thomas Collins, The rubrick of the Church of England, examin'd and consider'd:

     When Christmas Day falls upon a Saturday (as it did in 1736,) the Collect, Epistle and Gospel for St. Stephen's Day follows of Course, and no Notice is taken of the Sunday after Christmas Day

Coordinate terms

• Mawlid

Related terms

• Christmas Eve

Translations

the 25th/24th of December

• Catalan: dia de Nadal m
• Czech: první svátek vánoční m
• Danish: første juledag
• Dutch: kerstdag (nl) m
• Esperanto: kristnaskotago
• Faroese: jóladagur m
• Finnish: joulupäivä (fi)
• French: jour de Noël (fr) m
• Galician: día de Nadal m, Nadal (gl) m
• German: Weihnachtstag (de) m
• Greek: ημέρα Χριστουγέννων f (iméra Christougénnon)
• Greenlandic: juullerujussuaq, juullip-ullua
• Icelandic: jóladagur (is) m, fyrsti í jólum m
• Ingrian: Joulunpäivä
• Irish: Nollaig (ga) f
• Lakota: Waníkiya Tȟúŋpi Aŋpétu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: første juledag m, juledagen

  Nynorsk: første juledag m, juledagen

• Old English: ġēoldæġ m, Cristes mæssedæġ m, middes wintres mæssedæġ m
• Polish: Boże Narodzenie (pl) n, pierwszy dzień świąt m
• Portuguese: dia de Natal m
• Russian: Рождество́ (ru) n (Roždestvó)
• Scottish Gaelic: Là Nollaige m
• Swedish: juldagen (sv) c (definite form)
• Tagalog: Kapaskuhan
• Turkish: bocuk (tr)
• Vietnamese: ngày lễ Nô-en, ngày Giáng sinh

See also

• Boxing Day
• St. Stephen's Day