Christmas Day

plural Christmas Days · alternative Christmas day · alternative abbreviation informal X'mas Day · alternative abbreviation informal X'mas day · alternative abbreviation informal X-mas Day · alternative abbreviation informal X-mas day · alternative abbreviation informal Xmas Day · alternative abbreviation informal Xmas day

1. The day on which Christmas is celebrated. It is December 25 in the West, and January 7 in some Eastern Orthodox churches.

   When Christmas Day falls upon a Saturday (as it did in 1736,) the Collect, Epistle and Gospel for St. Stephen's Day follows of Course, and no Notice is taken of the Sunday after Christmas Day

   1737, Thomas Collins, The rubrick of the Church of England, examin'd and consider'd

plural Christmas days

1. Alternative letter-case form of Christmas Day.

   I find myself on Christmas day with people who are so tedious that a trip to the john appears an extravaganza by comparison.

   1983 December 24, Nancy A. F. Langer, “The Nuclear Family Holiday Blues”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 15

   5 more examples

   The breakdown of our holidays into days of mere worldly diversion is pathetic—e. g.: Fourth of July without patriotism, Thanksgiving day without thanks and Christmas day without Christ. What insults to the Almighty! Let us make it not alone a Santa-mas, but a Christ-mas.

   1912 December 20, “Church Notes”, in G. H. Graham, editor, The Nebraska News, volume VIII, number 42, Lincoln, Neb.: The Claflin Publishing Company, →OCLC, page [2], column 3

   The Euterpeans scheduled their first performance for Christmas day when a double bill of The Hough Diamond and Family Pictures was to be presented.

   1954, Jack Harlan Yocum, A History of Theatre in Houston, 1836-1954 - Volume 2, page 400

   The year David turned six, Rose abandoned the Midas dream and left everything, including David, behind. It wasn't until the lonely and celebrationless Christmas day of that year that David accepted that his mother wasn't coming back.

   1996, Richard Paul Evans, Timepiece, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 45

   With their themes and varied attractions, these parties became a much-anticipated event for Kingstonians on Christmas day after their dinner.

   2002, Kathleen E. A. Monteith and Glen Richards, editors, Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom, →ISBN, page 166

   Christmas day in 1998, we lived on the Pacific Ocean in Pacific Grove, California and watched a gam of whales breaching in the deep ultramarine water.

   2010, Jack White, Mastery of Self Promotion, →ISBN, page 119