Christmas
Christmas noun - A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland.
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Synonyms for Christmas
Festive season and Christmas are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Festive season" instead a noun "Christmas".
Nearby Word: Christmassy
Festive season
Christmas and festive season are semantically related. You can use "Christmas" instead a noun phrase "Festive season".
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A big part of the reason for Scrooge's hatred and resentment of Christmas is that his father often left him at school for the Christmas holidays, where he had to spend the festive season by himself.
Source: Twisted Christmas - Everybody's talkin' about the kisses and the hugs And all the little heartstrings that the festive season tugs But all I see are lager louts, shoplifters and thugs So fill mine up, 'cause Christmas is for mugs
Source: Anti-Christmas Song -
Britta, as the resident Hollywood Atheist and Soap Box Sadie on Community, makes a series of rather smug and snide dismissals of the trappings of the festive season, such as Christmas songs, which cause her to come off as a bit of a killjoy.
Source: The Grinch
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Festive season and Christmas. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/christmas/festive_season
Christmas & Festive season. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/christmas/festive_season>.
Festive season or Christmas. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/christmas/festive_season.
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