The Collaborative International Dictionary
Christmas \Christ"mas\, n. [Christ + mass.] An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality. Christmas box.
A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas.
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A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift.
Christmas carol, a carol sung at, or suitable for, Christmas.
Christmas day. Same as Christmas.
Christmas eve, the evening before Christmas.
Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern ( Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration in winter.
Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter.
Christmas tree, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.
Wikipedia
"Christmas Day" was a holiday single released by Squeeze in 1979. The single was released only in the United Kingdom, and failed to chart, a major surprise since the band had had consecutive number two hits earlier that year. The song itself was not included on an album, but appeared between the releases of Cool for Cats and Argybargy.
Christmas Day refers to the day of December 25, commonly known as simply Christmas.
It may also refer to:
"Christmas Day" is a Christmas song by Michael W. Smith featuring Mandisa, from Smith's third Christmas album, It's a Wonderful Christmas (2007). In 2014 Smith remade this song for his fourth Christmas album The Spirit of Christmas (2014), this time featuring Jennifer Nettles.
Usage examples of "christmas day".
Not many those mornings trod the piling streets: an old man always, fawn-bowlered, yellow-gloved and, at this time of year, with spats of snow, would take his constitutional to the white bowling green and back, as he would take it wet or fire on Christmas Day or Doomsday.
He had recently sold two paintings in London and received a valuable commission for a set of illustrations, so he had a little money and had brought goods for our Christmas Day and a gift for me.
He has decided, he says, to hold midnight services tonight, although it is generally the custom of Neo-Protestant churches to wait till Christmas Day.
When Christmas Day dawned, the vague sentiment began to assume the definiteness of a purpose, and noontide found him on his way to Sunrise Gap.
None of the other skaters seem to realize that there's a man frozen in the ice on Christmas Day.
On Christmas day Hines leaves Milly's child on the steps of an orphanage.