Meanings
alternative Yule-month · alternative yule-month
- rareThe typical month of the Yuletide; the month in which Yule typically occurs; Christmas month; December.
To go out during the dark hours before 'Yule-month' arrived was suicide. Even Norman lords and their houseswains would not venture out of the village on such nights as these.
2010, Richard Argent, Winter's Knight1 more example
Notwithstanding his assertion that December 25 was originally called Yule, and that December and January from it received their names as the earlier and later Yulemonth, there is not a single case, prior to the eleventh century, in which December 25 was called Yule.
1899, Alexander Tille, Yule and Christmas
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Old Englishġeohholmōnaþ
- Middle English*Yol-month
- EnglishYulemonth
From Middle English *Yol-month (found only as Ȝoless moneþþ (literally “Yule's month”)), from Old English ġeohholmōnaþ, Iūlmōnaþ (“December”, literally “Yule-month”), equivalent to Yule + month. Compare West Frisian joelmoanne (“December”), German Julmond (“Yulemonth”).
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Yulemonth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yulemonth
“Yulemonth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yulemonth. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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