christmas

Other forms of christmas

plural

christmases·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about christmas

What does christmas mean?

christmas means "period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in christmas?

christmas has 2 syllables: christ-mas. The stress falls on "christ". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɪsməs/.

What is another word for christmas?

Close synonyms include Christmastide, Christmastime, Yule, Yuletide, Noel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is christmas a common word?

christmas is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.