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

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Christmas, present.

A contemporary Christmas.

A rich fruit cake covered with marzipan and icing, traditionally eaten at Christmas.

(music) A carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas.

A ham, boiled and then baked in the oven with mustard, served sliced at Christmas as one of the traditionally most important parts of the Scandinavian julbord (special Christmas-time smörgåsbord).

A greeting card that is decorated in a manner that celebrates Christmas.

The inexorable tendency for the commercial aspects of Christmas to appear earlier every year.

A family meal, typically of roast turkey and trimmings, served on (or just before) Christmas Day.

(Australia, informal) any of the beetles of the genus Anoplognathus