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Yule Log

Definition: Yule Log

Yule Log

Noun

1. Large log traditionally burned at Christmas.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Yule Log

DomainDefinition

Dream Interpretation

To dream of a yule log, foretells that your joyous anticipations will be realized by your attendance at great festivities. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Literature

Yule Log A great log of wood laid in ancient times across the hearth-fire on Christmas Eve. This was done with certain ceremonies and much merry-making. (Norwegian, juul, Christmas.)
"Ever at Yuletide, when the great log flamed
In chimney corner, laugh and jest went round."
Aldrich Wyndham Towers, stanza 5. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Yule Log

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Yule log, or chocolate log, comes from the Yule festival, which gave rise to many other popular Christmas traditions. The word "yule" means wheel, a symbol representing the Sun, and the yule tide was a festivity celebrating the fact that the days and warmth would now start to get longer and warmer again. The yule log was a huge log (sometimes an entire tree) that was burned slowly throughout these days to herald the birth of this new sun. One end of the log would be placed in the fireplace with the rest sticking out into the room. The log was slowly fed into the fire over the course of several days until it was completely consumed.

See also Yule Log (Television Program)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yule Log."

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Synonyms within Context: Yule Log

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Yule Log

English words defined with "Yule log": Yule clog. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Yule Log

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Books

  • Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Wishes on the Yule Log, Smartpages (Beauty and the Beast) (reference)

  • The Christmas book : Christmas in the olden time, its customs and their origin : the holly and ivy, sports of the eve, Yule log, boar's head, the dinner, mummers, Lord of Misrule, Saturnalia, carols, mysteries and plays, boxes, &c. &c (reference)

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Theater & Movies

  • 3 Hour Christmas Yule Log Fireplace Video (reference)

  • Your Christmas Yule Log Fireplace Video (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Yule Log

Computer Images:
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Yule Log

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

yule log

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Yule Log

Language Translations for "Yule log"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏خطبة الميلاد. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

бъдник. (various references)

   

French

  

bûche de noël. (various references)

   

German

  

julblock. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

régen karácsonykor gyújtott nagy fahasáb. (various references)

   

Manx

  

darrag ny Nollick, block y Nollick. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yuleay oglay

   

Russian 

  

большое полено (yule-log). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

badnjak. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

noelde yakılan kütük. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Yule Log

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-l-l-o-u-y"

-1 letter: eulogy, gulley.

-2 letters: gluey, golly, gully.

-3 letters: gley, glue, gull, loge, logy, luge, ogle, ugly, yell, yule.

-4 letters: ego, ell, gel, gey, goy, gul, guy, leg, leu, ley, log, lug, lye, ole, you.

-5 letters: el, go, lo, oe, oy, ye, yo.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-l-l-o-u-y"
 

+3 letters: outyelling.

 

+4 letters: forgetfully, religiously.

 

+5 letters: gelatinously, groundlessly, oleaginously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow 		5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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