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Christmastide

noun

Etymology

From Christmas + -tide (“period around a festival”).

  1. inherited from Cristes mæsse — “Christmas”
  2. inherited from Cristemasse
  3. suffixed as christmastide — “Christmas + tide”

Definitions

  1. The Twelve Days of Christmas

    The Twelve Days of Christmas; the period from Christmas Day to Epiphany.

  2. The Christmas season.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA