Christmas Day
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- noun
- /ˈkrɪs·məs deɪ/
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día de Navidad
- Families gather to celebrate Christmas Day with festive meals and gift exchanges.
- come on Christmas Day
They don't want to be reminded it's Christmas Day, although they know.
- They don't want to be reminded it's Christmas Day, although they know.
- I wore these on Christmas Day, and they are so, so soft.
- Charlemagne, Einhardt tells us, went to Saint Peter's on Christmas Day to pray.
- So I'll see you guys not tomorrow but on Christmas Day with a new video.
- And this would be such a gorgeous Christmas Day or Christmas party dress.
- It's like getting your kids Christmas Day, your kids around the tree.
- Right now it is Christmas Day and so I hope you enjoy your Christmas.
- I had a situation at Christmas where my grandmother died on Christmas Day, actually, thank you.
- Also, the game Pie Face is really fun to play on Christmas Day with family especially.
- Yeah, and we all had like a full on Christmas Day at my house, like we did presents.
Examples
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Also, the game Pie Face is really fun to play on Christmas Day with family especially.
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So I'll see you guys not tomorrow but on Christmas Day with a new video.
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Right now it is Christmas Day and so I hope you enjoy your Christmas.
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And very normal, very normal Christmas Day for us.
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At the hospital, on Christmas Day.
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I dance, drink, and have a good time, for tomorrow is Christmas Day and we will rest.
Fiction book (2000) -
I wore these on Christmas Day, and they are so, so soft.
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Talk us through your typical Christmas Day wake up.
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For the past five years, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day had been dead times for me.
Fiction book (1998) -
Breakfast in the children's ward on Christmas Day was always a bit difficult.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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A Christian holiday on December 25 celebrating the birth of Jesus
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A short form of Christmas, the December 25 holiday when people often give gifts
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A Christian holiday on December 25 when people celebrate the birth of Jesus
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the annual festival observed on December 25th' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'Christmas' (the festival) with 'day' (a calendar day set aside for an event). This compositional pattern (event + day) is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Christmas Day comes from the old church phrase Christ's Mass, a church service on December 25 to mark the birth of Jesus. So today Christmas Day is the special holiday when people 'celebrate the birth' and often exchange gifts.