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CHRISTMAS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
Synonyms:
Christmas; Christmas Day; Dec 25; Xmas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Christmas" is a kind of...):
quarter day (a Christian holy day; one of four specified days when certain payments are due)
feast day; fete day (a day designated for feasting)
holy day of obligation (a day when Catholics must attend Mass and refrain from servile work, and Episcopalians must take Communion)
legal holiday; national holiday; public holiday (authorized by law and limiting work or official business)
Holonyms ("Christmas" is a part of...):
Dec; December (the last (12th) month of the year)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
Synonyms:
Christmas; Christmastide; Christmastime; Noel; Yule; Yuletide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Christmas" is a kind of...):
season (a recurrent time marked by major holidays)
Meronyms (parts of "Christmas"):
Boxing Day (first weekday after Christmas)
Holonyms ("Christmas" is a part of...):
Jan; January (the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice)
Dec; December (the last (12th) month of the year)
Context examples:
A group of islands in the Indian Ocean, south of Indonesia and west of Christmas Island.
(Cocos (Keeling) Islands, NCI Thesaurus)
Yes, she will remain there till Christmas.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Also called: Christmas disease, Factor IX deficiency, Factor VIII deficiency
(Hemophilia, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
"I remember last Christmas at a little hop at the park, he danced from eight o'clock till four, without once sitting down."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Inherited coagulation factor-deficient hemophilias include hemophilia A or classic hemophilia (factor VIII deficiency) hemophilia B or Christmas disease (factor IX deficiency), and hemophilia C (factor XI deficiency).
(Hemophilia, NCI Thesaurus)
The very first day that Morland came to us last Christmas—the very first moment I beheld him—my heart was irrecoverably gone.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
"I hope I shall remember, in future," said Lady Russell, as soon as they were reseated in the carriage, "not to call at Uppercross in the Christmas holidays."
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A deficiency of blood coagulation factor IX inherited as an X-linked disorder. (Also known as Christmas Disease, after the first patient studied in detail, not the holy day.) Historical and clinical features resemble those in classic hemophilia (HEMOPHILIA A), but patients present with fewer symptoms.
(Hemophilia B, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
It is Christmas Eve. I dance, drink, make a good time, for to-morrow is Christmas Day and we will rest. But no. It is five o'clock in the morning—Christmas morning. I am two hours asleep. The man stand by my bed. 'Come, Charley,' he says, 'harness the dogs. We start.'
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
She woke Meg with a "Merry Christmas," and bade her see what was under her pillow.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
