Yuletide
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈjuːlˌtaɪd/
- Archaic
:
Navidad
- Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
- yuletide season
- yuletide carol
- yuletide spirit
We may not have had your Charlie Brown Christmas special, but we had something just as fun, a cartoon called Tragic Theodore's Yuletide Laments.
- We may not have had your Charlie Brown Christmas special, but we had something just as fun, a cartoon called Tragic Theodore's Yuletide Laments.
Examples
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In a few hours, the United Nations will receive our yuletide greetings.
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The joyful decorations filled the house with a festive atmosphere during the Yuletide season.
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So in the yuletide spirit, I'm gonna say it one more time.
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The flicker of yuletide lights.
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Would you like to join us in a bit of a Yuletide spirit?" Loud laughter came from the corridor beyond.
Fiction book (1995) -
Nat King Cole on the stereo does his romantic Yuletide thing.
Fiction book (1992) -
Duck Yuletide Celebration Specials and Tapas Crawl restaurants are being added to our website daily.
Blog text (22) -
Breakfast the next morning was an affair of damp and foggy silences, despite the bright Yuletide greens that graced the room.
Fiction book (1994) -
Even if we squeeze every ounce of yuletide cheer out of the full Christmas season, that season remains bounded by Advent and Epiphany.
Academic text (2007) -
From whatever angle you chose to look at it, the Yuletide bash was a triumph, a veritable banquet of laughter and gaiety, but I didn't enjoy myself one bit.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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1.0
A busy time at the end of the year when people celebrate, travel, and shop
27
1.0
A time around Christmas when people celebrate and give gifts
22
3.7
A Christmas season from December 24 to January 6
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9.6
The festive time from late December to early January with old traditions
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8.8
The time from December 24 to January 6 when people celebrate Christmas
The time from December 24 to January 6 when people celebrate the holiday
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word Yuletide comes from two parts: Yule, the old name for a midwinter festival from the old Norse word jól, and tide, an old word for 'time' or 'season'. So Yuletide simply means the 'Yule' time, the Christmas season in late December and early January.