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CHRISTMAS EVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Christmas Eve mean?
• CHRISTMAS EVE (noun)
The noun CHRISTMAS EVE has 1 sense:
1. the day before Christmas
Familiarity information: CHRISTMAS EVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The day before Christmas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Christmas Eve; Dec 24
Hypernyms ("Christmas Eve" is a kind of...):
holiday (a day on which work is suspended by law or custom)
Context examples
Buy them on December 24 (Christmas Eve) or December 25 (Christmas), for Uranus—the planet of surprise—will be in Taurus, in perfect angle to the Sun and new moon solar eclipse in Capricorn, your house of funding from outside sources.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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)
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