CHRISTMAS DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Christmas Day mean? 

• CHRISTMAS DAY (noun)
  The noun CHRISTMAS DAY has 1 sense:

1. a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland

  Familiarity information: CHRISTMAS DAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRISTMAS DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Christmas; Christmas Day; Dec 25; Xmas

Hypernyms ("Christmas Day" 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 Day" is a part of...):

Dec; December (the last (12th) month of the year)

 Context examples 

The weather was most favourable for her; though Christmas Day, she could not go to church.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The Christmas Day eclipse of December 25 will be one of the most memorable and significant periods of the year for your career, and it will trigger so much more to come in 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Along this walk, on Christmas Day, a tall young man walked slowly, with his hands behind him, and a somewhat absent expression of countenance.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

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)

It’s an enchanting time to commit your heart forever, dear Taurus, either on Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, or New Year’s Day.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

No intercourse with Harriet possible but by note; no church for her on Sunday any more than on Christmas Day; and no need to find excuses for Mr. Elton's absenting himself.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Several days of unusually mild weather fitly ushered in a splendid Christmas Day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In the United States and South America, the solar eclipse will occur on Christmas Day, and one day later, December 26, in countries in the rest of the world.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Let me backtrack a moment, for you will enjoy a different professional day before the Christmas Day eclipse arrives.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

By the way, the coming eclipses next month on Christmas Day, December 25, and January 10 will be sweet and encouraging, so have no worries—they are not like the hardest eclipse of 2019, which arrived on July 16 and brought jarring news to many readers.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)