"white Christmas" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-white Christmas.wav [Southern-England] Forms: white Christmases [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} white Christmas (plural white Christmases)
  1. A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve on which there is a ground covering of snow or snowfall. Wikipedia link: white Christmas Categories (topical): Christmas, Snow Derived forms: white Christmas slice Related terms: snow day, white Easter Translations (a Christmas Day or Eve with snow): witte kerst [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), valkea joulu (Finnish), valkoinen joulu (Finnish), Noël blanc [masculine] (French), ホワイトクリスマス (howaito kurisumasu) (Japanese), Natal branco [masculine] (Portuguese), vit jul [common-gender] (Swedish)

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