"Christmastide" meaning in English

See Christmastide in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Christmastide.wav [Southern-England] Forms: Christmastides [plural], Christmas-tide [alternative]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- Proto-Indo-European *gʰrey-der. Ancient Greek χρίω (khríō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek χρῑστός (khrīstós) ▲ Biblical Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (mašīaḥ)sl. ▲ Aramaic ܡܫܺܝܚܳܐ (m'šīḥāʿ)sl. Ancient Greek Χρῑστός (Khrīstós)der. Latin Chrīstusder. Old English Crist Proto-Germanic *-as Proto-West Germanic *-as Old English -es Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti Proto-Italic *meitō Old Latin mītō Latin mittō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin missiō Latin missabor. Old English mæsse Old English Cristes mæsse Middle English Cristemasse English Christmas English -tide English Christmastide From Christmas + -tide (“period around a festival”). 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Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} Christmastide (countable and uncountable, plural Christmastides)
  1. The Twelve Days of Christmas; the period from Christmas Day to Epiphany. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  2. The Christmas season. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (Christmas season): yuletide
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Advent

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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