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Definition: Xmas |
XmasNoun1. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
Xmas | English | Christmas | History & Folklore |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: XmasSynonyms: Christmas (n), Christmas Day (n), Dec 25 (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Xmas |
| Specialty definitions using "Xmas": Wrath. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This is not how Xmas is suppose to be, in my days Xmas was about bringing people together not blowing them apart (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Xmas (1969) Fiona Cooper New Girls for Xmas 2002 (2002) `R Xmas (2001) Father Xmas (2001) | |
Song Titles | Merry Xmas Everybody (performing artist: Slade) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Music |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The early, early, early, Xmas shopper. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | It's going to be a grand Xmas --. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | It's the same man. Week before Xmas, 1916 -- same, 1917 -- again, 1918 -- In 1919 -- 1920 -- and now. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Scrap the Xmas grouch --. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Municipal Xmas, Independence, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Century for Xmas / L.J.R. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Truth [for] Xmas '96 / Ernest Haskell. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The government asks you to do your Xmas shopping early--Do it now / Haskell Coffin ; American Lithographic Co. N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The government asks you to do your Xmas shopping early--Do it now / Haskell Coffin ; American Lithographic Co. N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Xmas at city council, Valencia" by Marcos Rodriguez Lopez Commentary: "The pic was taken at city council of Valencia in Spain., 24th December of 2002. Obviously was Xmas. Merry Xmas everyone!." | "Xmas tree 2" by Jimmy Svensson Commentary: "Snow ball in the christmas tree." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. Amongst the ancients the wrath of kings was deemed sacred, for it could usually command the agency of some god for its fit manifestation, as could also that of a priest. The Greeks before Troy were so harried by Apollo that they jumped out of the frying-pan of the wrath of Cryses into the fire of the wrath of Achilles, though Agamemnon, the sole offender, was neither fried nor roasted. A similar noted immunity was that of David when he incurred the wrath of Yahveh by numbering his people, seventy thousand of whom paid the penalty with their lives. God is now Love, and a director of the census performs his work without apprehension of disaster. X X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language. X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc., stands for Christ, not, as is popular supposed, because it represents a cross, but because the corresponding letter in the Greek alphabet is the initial of his name -- Xristos. If it represented a cross it would stand for St. Andrew, who "testified" upon one of that shape. In the algebra of psychology x stands for Woman's mind. Words beginning with X are Grecian and will not be defined in this standard English dictionary. Y |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Xmas" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.00% of the time. "Xmas" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 84% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Noun (plural) | 16% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "Xmas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | krishtlindje (Christmas, Noel). (various references) | |
Arabic | عيد الميلاد (yule), الكريسماس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | коледа (yule-tide). (various references) | |
Chinese | 圣诞节 (Christmas). (various references) | |
Czech | vánoce (Christmas, Noel, Yule). (various references) | |
Farsi | کریسمس(christmas=). (various references) | |
French | noël. (various references) | |
German | Weihnachten (Christmas, christmasses, Yule, yules). (various references) | |
Greek | χριστούγεννα (Christmas, Noel, Yule). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חג המולד. (various references) | |
Hungarian | karácsony (Christmas, festival of the nativity, festive season, nativity, Noel, Yule). (various references) | |
Italian | natale (birth, Christmas, Natal, native, Yule, yuletide). (various references) | |
Korean | 크리스마스 (Christmas). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asxmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | natal (christmas, home-bred, natal, nativity, noel, yule). (various references) | |
Romanian | crãciun (Christmas). (various references) | |
Russian | рождество (nativity, noel, x-mas, xmases, yuletide). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | božić (christmas, noel, yule-tide). (various references) | |
Spanish | navidad (Christmas, nativity, Noel, Yule). (various references) | |
Swedish | jul (Christmas, Noel, x-mas, Yule, yule-tide). (various references) | |
Turkish | noel (Christmas, Noel, Yule). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | різдво (yuletide). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lễ Nô-en (christmas, yule). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-s-x" | |
-1 letter: mas, max, sax. | |
-2 letters: am, as, ax, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-s-x" | |
+1 letter: exams, maxes, maxis, moxas. | |
+2 letters: axioms, mastix, maxims, smilax. | |
+3 letters: admixes, examens, maxixes, myxomas, taxemes. | |
+4 letters: amplexus, apomixes, apomixis, axonemes, axoplasm, climaxes, examines, examples, exclaims, mastixes, matrixes, maxillas, maximals, maximins, maximise, maximums, maxwells, monaxons, panmixes, panmixis, paroxysm, smallpox, smilaxes, toxemias, waxworms. | |
+5 letters: amphioxus, anoxemias, axoplasms, cacomixls, disclimax, examinees, examiners, exanthems, exciseman, exemplars, exogamies, exogamous, hexagrams, hexamines, mailboxes, maxicoats, maximised, maximises, maximites, maximizes, minimaxes, myxedemas, oxazepams, panmixias, paroxysms, subclimax, toxaemias, xanthomas. | |
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