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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Christmas \Christ"mas\, noun [Christ + mass.] 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.
{Christmas box}. (a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas. (b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift.
{Christmas carol}, a carol sung at, or suitable for, Christmas.
{Christmas day}. Same as {Christmas}.
{Christmas eve}, the evening before Christmas.
{Christmas fern} (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern ({Aspidium acrostichoides}), which is much used for decoration in winter.
{Christmas flower}, {Christmas rose}, the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter.
{Christmas tree}, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Christmas
noun
1: period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 [syn: {Christmastide}, {Christmastime}, {Yule}, {Yuletide}, {Noel}]
2: a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland [syn: {Christmas Day}, {Xmas}, {Dec 25}]
verb: spend Christmas; "We were christmassing in New York"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "Christmas": Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation, Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Carnival, Corpus Christi, Easter, Easter Monday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ember days, Epiphany, Good Friday, Halloween, Hallowmas, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Lady Day, Lammas, Lammas Day, Lammastide, Lent, Lententide, Mardi Gras, Martinmas, Maundy Thursday, Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day, Michaelmastide, Nativity, Palm Sunday, Pancake Day, Passion Week, Pentecost, Quadragesima, Quadragesima Sunday, Septuagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Trinity Sunday, Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide, Whit-Tuesday, White Sunday, Whitmonday, Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whitsuntide, Whitweek, noel, yule, yuletide
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Christmas, FL Zip code(s): 32709 Christmas, MI Zip code(s): 49862
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Christmas, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida Population (2000): 1162 Housing Units (2000): 446 Land area (2000): 3.572145 sq. miles (9.251812 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.572145 sq. miles (9.251812 sq. km) FIPS code: 12250 Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12 Location: 28.532428 N, 80.993956 W ZIP Codes (1990): 32709 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Christmas, FL Christmas
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