christmastide

Other forms of christmastide

plural

christmastides·

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 christmastide

What does christmastide mean?

christmastide means "period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6".

How many syllables are in christmastide?

christmastide has 3 syllables: christ-ma-stide. The stress falls on "christ".

What is another word for christmastide?

Close synonyms include Christmas, 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 christmastide a common word?

christmastide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.