Christmas, Christmastide, Christmastime, Yule, Yuletide, Noel
(noun) period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
Source: WordNet® 3.1
yuletide (countable and uncountable, plural yuletides)
Alternative letter-case form of Yuletide (“Christmas or the Christmas season”).
The flower Camellia sasanqua, native to Japan and nearby islands.
• (Christmas season): Christmastide
• (Camellia sasanqua): sasanqua
Yuletide (countable and uncountable, plural Yuletides)
(dated) The period around Christmas; the Christmas season, Christmastime; specifically, Christmas itself.
(dated, or Germanic Neo-Paganism) The period of celebration of a pre-Christian festival associated with the (northern) winter solstice, later absorbed into the festival of Christmas (but sometimes recreated by modern neo-pagans).
(Australia, regional) The period of southern winter in the middle of the year, sometimes celebrated in the colder, snowy regions of Australia with allusions to Christmas, which originated as a marketing gimmick.
• (Christmas season): Christmastide (one sense)
Source: Wiktionary
Yule"tide`, n.
Definition: Christmas time; Christmastide; the season of Christmas.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
