Christmastime

Examples

• All

• "Nobody should go hungry at Christmastime," she said.

  Fiction book (1997)

• One of the highlights for children during Christmastime is the arrival of Santa Claus!

  Blog text (27)

• It's Christmastime in New York.

  A Journal for Jordan (2021)

• And Christmastime was always the worst.

  Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)

• But that must be some other time, because now it was Christmastime.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The mall at Christmastime is like oxygen for me.

  Red One (2024)

• I wanted to give my kids their own sense of ethnic identity, especially at Christmastime.

  Academic text (1996)

• For more than twenty years, the art has been displayed at Christmastime.

  Academic text (1991)

• Ron Miller is hosting an open house as part of Christmastime in Loganville.

  Blog text (10)

• Joe came back to Indiana at Christmastime and experienced the other extreme of Indiana weather—subzero temperatures.

  Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

N

Noel

vsChristmastime

22 3.7

A Christmas season from December 24 to January 6

is the usual everyday expression rather than a tradition-focused term

Y

Yuletide

vsChristmastime

• Archaic

13 7.4

The Christmas season around late December and early January

is the more general everyday term for that same period

Y

Yule

vsChristmastime

• Archaic

5 9.6

The festive time from late December to early January with old traditions

is the modern everyday name rather than an old historical label

C

Christmastide

vsChristmastime

• Archaic

1 8.8

The time from December 24 to January 6 when people celebrate Christmas

is the common informal way to refer to that period

C

Christmas

vsChristmastime

1.0

The time from December 24 to January 6 when people celebrate the holiday

is the broader everyday label for that time not a calendar term

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology