Meaning of Yuletide | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Yuletide (“Christmas or the Christmas season”).
   alt-of, countable, uncountable
2. The period around Christmas; the Christmas season, Christmastime; specifically, Christmas itself.
   countable, dated, uncountable
3. The flower Camellia sasanqua, native to Japan and nearby islands.
   countable, uncountable
4. 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).
   countable, dated, uncountable
5. 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.
   Australia, countable, regional, uncountable

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Examples

“Deck the halls with boughs of holly, / Fa la la la la la la la la! / 'Tis the season to be jolly, / Fa la la la la la la la la! / Don we now our gay apparel, / Fa la la la la la la la la! / Troll the ancient yuletide carol, / Fa la la la la la la la la!”

“What did the first locked drawer contain⟳? […] a Yuletide card, bearing on it a pictorial representation of a parasitic plant⟳, the legend Mizpah, the date⟳ Xmas 1892, the name⟳ of the senders: from Mr and Mrs M. Comerford, the versicle: May this Yuletide bring⟳ to thee, Joy and peace and welcome⟳ glee: […]”

“It's Christmas at ground zero / Just seconds left to go / I'll duck and cover⟳ / With my Yuletide lover / Underneath the mistletoe”

“For this is the Yuletide, and the heathen people of the forest are gathered at the thunder-oak of Geismar to worship⟳ their god, Thor.”

“It was the Yuletide, that men call⟳ Christmas though they know⟳ in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind. It was the Yuletide, and I had come⟳ at last⟳ to the ancient sea town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in the elder time when festival was forbidden; where also they had commanded their sons to keep⟳ festival once every century, that the memory of primal secrets might not be forgotten.”

“Note⟳ that the colder winter months (June–Aug) are the busiest season. This period is known as Yuletide—the locals' version of the Christmas period, when most places offer⟳ traditional Christmas dinners and roaring log⟳ fires.”

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