Christmas Eve
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- noun
- /ˈkrɪs·məs iv/
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Nochebuena
- Do you remember our first Christmas Eve in Paris, the month before we got married?
I think I spent the last three Christmas Eves with Maggie and James.
- I think I spent the last three Christmas Eves with Maggie and James.
- We're going to crush it this Christmas Eve hard, and we're going to charge admission.
- We released our first episode on midnight on Christmas Eve.
- And she had to take me to get emergency dental surgery on Christmas Eve.
Examples
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Terry and I are spending Christmas Eve with you.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with family and friends on Christmas Eve and having a big party.
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But, you know, on Christmas Eve, though, we're getting a night off.
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That time it was Christmas Eve and we were taking family pictures, right?
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We are 24 hours to Christmas Eve.
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Not to work on Christmas Eve.
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And, you know, we do a big Norwegian Christmas Eve celebration.
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My old boyfriend Ed and I always took Bobby to Gramps's on Christmas Eve.
Fiction book (1993) -
A few months earlier on Christmas Eve, the crew of Apollo 8 read from the book of Genesis while they orbited the moon.
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On Christmas Eve, families gather to exchange gifts and share meals.
Synonyms
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The day before Christmas, 24 December
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the day or evening before Christmas' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'Christmas' (the holiday) with 'eve' (the time immediately preceding an event). This compositional pattern (holiday + eve) is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English noun composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The name Christmas Eve comes from the old use of eve to mean 'the evening before' a special day, so Christmas Eve is the night or day before Christmas when families gather, go to church, and get ready for the holiday.