"Christmas Day" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Christmas Day.wav [Southern-England] Forms: Christmas Days [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English Cristemasse day, from Old English Cristes mæssedæġ (“Christmas Day”, literally “day of Christ's mass”). Now equivalent to Christmas + day. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|Cristemasse day}} Middle English Cristemasse day, {{inh|en|ang|Cristes mæssedæġ|lit=day of Christ's mass|t=Christmas Day}} Old English Cristes mæssedæġ (“Christmas Day”, literally “day of Christ's mass”), {{m|en|Christmas}} Christmas, {{m|en|day}} day Head templates: {{en-noun|head=Christmas Day}} 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. Categories (topical): Christmas Related terms: Christmas Eve, Boxing Day, St. Stephen's Day Coordinate_terms: Mawlid Translations (the 25th of December): dia de Nadal [masculine] (Catalan), první svátek vánoční [masculine] (Czech), første juledag (Danish), kerstdag [masculine] (Dutch), kristnaskotago (Esperanto), jóladagur [masculine] (Faroese), joulupäivä (Finnish), jour de Noël [masculine] (French), día de Nadal [masculine] (Galician), Nadal [masculine] (Galician), Weihnachtstag [masculine] (German), ημέρα Χριστουγέννων (iméra Christougénnon) [feminine] (Greek), juullerujussuaq (Greenlandic), juullip-ullua (Greenlandic), jóladagur [masculine] (Icelandic), fyrsti í jólum [masculine] (Icelandic), Joulunpäivä (Ingrian), Nollaig [feminine] (Irish), Waníkiya Tȟúŋpi Aŋpétu (Lakota), første juledag [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), juledagen (Norwegian Bokmål), første juledag [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), juledagen (Norwegian Nynorsk), ġēoldæġ [masculine] (Old English), Cristes mæssedæġ [masculine] (Old English), middes wintres mæssedæġ [masculine] (Old English), Boże Narodzenie [neuter] (Polish), pierwszy dzień świąt [masculine] (Polish), dia de Natal [masculine] (Portuguese), Рождество́ (Roždestvó) [neuter] (Russian), Là Nollaige [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), juldagen (note: definite form) [common-gender] (Swedish), Kapaskuhan (Tagalog), bocuk (Turkish), ngày lễ Nô-en (Vietnamese), ngày Giáng sinh (Vietnamese)

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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Roždestvó",
      "sense": "the 25th of December",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Рождество́"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "the 25th of December",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Là Nollaige"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "note": "definite form",
      "sense": "the 25th of December",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "juldagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the 25th of December",
      "word": "Kapaskuhan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the 25th of December",
      "word": "bocuk"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the 25th of December",
      "word": "ngày lễ Nô-en"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the 25th of December",
      "word": "ngày Giáng sinh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Christmas Day"
}

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