Christmas, Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus. The English term Christmas (“mass on Christ's day”) is of fairly recent origin.
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The word festive comes from the Latin term for feast: festivus. It originally meant joyous, gay and merry. It is also related to festum which means festival or ...
Christmas meaning: 1. (the period just before and after) 25 December, a Christian holy day that celebrates the birth…. Learn more.
A page showing typical English vocabulary and expressions that we use about or at Christmas. Vocabulary for ESL learners and teachers.