"Twelve Days of Christmas" meaning in English

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  1. The season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany; Christmas season, Christmas time, Christmastide, Twelvetide. The Christmas season traditionally ended with the feast of the Epiphany on January 6. Categories (topical): Christmas, Twelve Translations (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany): اِثْنَا عَشَر يَوْمَا مِن عِيد الْمِيلَاد (iṯnā ʕašar yawmā min ʕīd al-mīlād) (Arabic), свя́ткі (svjátki) [feminine, plural] (Belarusian), каля́дныя свя́ткі (kaljádnyja svjátki) [feminine, plural] (Belarusian), বড়দিনের বারো দিন (boṛdiner barō din) (Bengali), свӓткӓ (svätkä) (Eastern Mari), joulunaika (Finnish), Douze jours de Noël (French), doce días de Nadal (Galician), zwölf Weihnachtstage [plural] (German), die Zwölften [plural] (German), Δώδεκα ημέρες των Χριστουγέννων (Dódeka iméres ton Christougénnon) (Greek), क्रिस्मस के बारह दिन (krismas ke bārah din) (Hindi), Dodici giorni di Natale (Italian), クリスマスの十二日間 (Japanese), вежадыр (vežadyr) (Komi-Zyrian), 크리스마스의 열두 일 (keuriseumaseuui yeoldu il) (Korean), Doze dias de natal (Portuguese), свя́тки (svjátki) [feminine, plural] (Russian), Рожде́ственские свя́тки (Roždéstvenskije svjátki) [feminine, plural] (Russian), Двена́дцать дней Рождества́ (Dvenádcatʹ dnej Roždestvá) [plural] (Russian), коля́ды (koljády) [feminine, plural, regional] (Russian), святы́е дни (svjatýje dni) [masculine, plural] (Russian), святы́е (svjatýje) [masculine, plural] (Russian), Doce días de Natal (Spanish), བཅུ་གཉིས་ཉི་མའི་ཡེ་ཤུའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར། (bcu gnyis nyi ma'i ye shu'i 'khrungs skar) (Tibetan), вожодыр (vožodyr) (Udmurt), свя́тки (svjátky) [feminine, plural] (Ukrainian), свӓткӓ (svätkä) (Western Mari)
    Sense id: en-Twelve_Days_of_Christmas-en-noun-aWtH-t1x Disambiguation of Christmas: 54 46 Disambiguation of Twelve: 56 44 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bengali translations, Terms with Eastern Mari translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Tibetan translations, Terms with Udmurt translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Western Mari translations Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Belarusian translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Bengali translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Eastern Mari translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Tibetan translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Udmurt translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Western Mari translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of 'the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany': 88 12
  2. An 18th-century English Christmas carol which describes a series of successively grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas. Categories (topical): Christmas Synonyms: Christmas season, Christmastide, Christmas time, Twelvetide Related terms: Advent, Epiphany
    Sense id: en-Twelve_Days_of_Christmas-en-noun-DyB16IiH Disambiguation of Christmas: 54 46 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bengali translations, Terms with Eastern Mari translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Komi-Zyrian translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Tibetan translations, Terms with Udmurt translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Western Mari translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 36 64 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Belarusian translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Bengali translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Eastern Mari translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Komi-Zyrian translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Tibetan translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Udmurt translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Western Mari translations: 48 52
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      "word": "Douze jours de Noël"
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      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
      "word": "doce días de Nadal"
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      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
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      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
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      "code": "hi",
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      "roman": "krismas ke bārah din",
      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
      "word": "Dodici giorni di Natale"
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      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
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      "roman": "keuriseumaseuui yeoldu il",
      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
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      "word": "свӓткӓ"
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      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
      "word": "свӓткӓ"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
      "word": "Doze dias de natal"
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      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
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      "roman": "Roždéstvenskije svjátki",
      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
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        "feminine",
        "plural"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Dvenádcatʹ dnej Roždestvá",
      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
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      "roman": "koljády",
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      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
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        "plural"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
      "word": "Doce días de Natal"
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      "code": "bo",
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      "roman": "bcu gnyis nyi ma'i ye shu'i 'khrungs skar",
      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
      "word": "བཅུ་གཉིས་ཉི་མའི་ཡེ་ཤུའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར།"
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      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
      "word": "вожодыр"
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      "roman": "svjátky",
      "sense": "the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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