yuletide

See also: Yuletide

English

Etymology

From Yule (“Germanic Winter Festival”) +‎ -tide (“period around a festival, season”); compare Swedish juletid.

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Noun

yuletide (countable and uncountable, plural yuletides)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Yuletide (“Christmas or the Christmas season”).
  2. The flower Camellia sasanqua, native to Japan and nearby islands.

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