Christmastide

English

Alternative forms

• Christmas-tide

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

Christmastide (countable and uncountable, plural Christmastides)

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

Synonyms

• (Christmas season): yuletide

Translations

Christmas season — see Christmas season

See also

• Advent