(n.) An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(2) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
(3) Having been knocked out of the League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup before Christmas, they lost an FA Cup fourth-round replay at West Brom on 1 February.
(4) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
(5) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(6) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
(7) Following its success, Littleloud created a version of the game for Apple's iPad, launched onto the App Store at Christmas.
(8) The "Dream Toys" for Christmas list includes a few old favourites alongside some new, and sparkly, additions.
(9) It is deeply moving hearing him talk now – as if from the grave – about a Christmas Day when he felt so frustrated and cut-off from his family that he had to go into the office to escape.
(10) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(11) On the 18th I will be sitting down to the university Christmas meal two hours after the results are passed on to me.
(12) Senior executives at Network Rail are likely to be summoned to Westminster to explain the engineering overruns that caused chaos for Christmas travellers over the weekend.
(13) I tried desperately hard not to influence her, but I did steer her away from a baby that I've already bought her for her Christmas present.
(14) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
(15) Matt Busby used to say to us that if we were six points off the lead at Christmas we would win the league.
(16) When the owners of Manchester City finally managed to persuade Pep Guardiola to oversee the next stage of their masterplan it is fair to say they probably did not expect to be approaching Christmas scuffling with a team of Watford’s limitations for their first league win at home in almost three months.
(17) It should see the Arctic 30 home in time for Christmas.
(18) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(19) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
(20) The TV campaign, created by ad agency Leo Burnett, uses imagery and motifs more closely associated with Christmas than summer.
Yuletide
Definition:
(n.) Christmas time; Christmastide; the season of Christmas.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(2) What they’d really like is a lottery win so they can forget yuletide altogether and get on a plane to Goa or Istanbul.
(3) It's been around for less than a year, yet Heidi Thomas's wildly successful period drama feels as if it's been with us forever, with each episode essentially a yuletide special in miniature, laden with air-punching nuns and twinkling tales of placentas past.
(4) Forecasts of Christmas spending seem mixed: 2012's figures suggested an average household spend no higher than in 2006 and people remain driven to find bargains, but there have been credible predictions of a 3.5% rise in 2013, and yuletide spending exceeding £40bn.
(5) The book, The Atheist's Guide to Christmas, contained contributions from such present-day icons as Richard Dawkins, Charlie Brooker, Derren Brown, Ben Goldacre, Jenny Colgan, David Baddiel, AC Grayling and Ariane Sherine on (in essence) how to have a fun yuletide if you don't believe in God.
(6) No yuletide is complete without a Furby, and Hamleys believes that this year's edition – the Furby Boom – will be right up there as a "huge seller", even though it is yet to be launched.
(7) This should prove sobering enough to prepare you for Thirsty Thursday , the traditional kick-off for the nightly yuletide pilgrimage from office party to A&E.
(8) Boo Oliver Cromwell trying to cancel Christmas, cheer Charles Dickens reviving Yuletide traditions, and watch Henry VIII get his stuffing.
(9) Last year's was an all-white number with ticker tape and bubbly, which made it look as if they were trapped in a 2013 version of The Crystal Maze, but this year their yuletide snap went further and almost broke the internet.
(10) It will be the programme's last outing on BBC2 before it switches to BBC1 next year; Berry will also offer up some advice for the "perfect Yuletide feast" on a festive Food and Drink.
(11) Whether the single can harness the anti-Simon Cowell feeling that propelled RATM to the yuletide top spot remains to be seen, but the anarchic coalition has already garnered a substantial following, with more than 60,000 fans on Facebook.
(12) The “war on Christmas” has become an annual yuletide fiction as reliable as tales of the Grinch , the nutcracker or even of Santa Claus himself.
(13) Wearing 3D glasses, she watched part of the footage, to be broadcast on Christmas Day, as the final touches were made to the yuletide staple.
(14) This involved watching the latter-day Quo entertain yuletide crowds in Manchester and Liverpool, and interviewing their dual monarchy, Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi.
(15) I question the judgment of government in choosing to drop another holiday bombshell on people with disability, who are now spending Easter worrying about whether they will have an income rather than spending quality time with loved ones and families (you might remember that in the lead up to Christmas, we were treated to Yuletide headlines promising to "bust bludgers" and crack down on "disability cheats").
(16) So send any yuletide puzzlers and seasonal trivia troublers to knowledge@theguardian.com DO HOOLIGANS EVER WIN?
(17) In the 1960s Elvis gave us yuletide joy in the form of Blue Christmas and If Every Day Was Like Christmas , while the recently departed Dora Bryan made the top 20 in 1963 with All I Want For Christmas Is a Beatle .
(18) When I discovered that the film was only showing in two cinemas in the whole state, I authorised my youngest son to download it for Yuletide family viewing.
(19) Merry gentlemen and merry gentlewomen should go to The Harlequin on Wednesday 14 December, where there will be a gathering around the piano to belt out an evening of yuletide favourites.
(20) Outside, queuing in temperatures of -8C before the event, guests – who included the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and a house foreign affairs committee member, Chris Smith – were entertained by the Oslo police band playing, perhaps incongruously, Yuletide favourites: Jingle Bells, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.