black Christmas
black Christmas noun: a Christmas Day or Christmas Eve on which there is no snowfall or no ground covering of snow.
Noun
black Christmas (plural black Christmases)
- A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve on which there is no snowfall or no ground covering of snow.
- D. A black Christmas makes a fat churchyard. D. This is, in effect, the same as A green winter makes, &c., as a 'black Christmas is of course a Christmas without snow.1882, William Carew Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases: Collected from the Most Authentic Sources, Alphabetically Arranged, and Annotated, page 3
- We didn't have any snow up here, that stayed until this year (1918) thus giving us a black Christmas, as they say, but the spirit was anything but black. Colored and white packages prevailed.1917, The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators, page 287
- Synonyms:
- green Christmas
- Antonyms:
- white Christmas
Examples of black Christmas in a sentence
- We supposed that we were going to have a black Christmas, but we had snow and cold weather.1928, John Van Schaick, Nature Cruisings to the Old Home Town and the Little Hill Farm:
- A black Christmas this year, the wireless report had [forecast].2017, Martin Edwards, Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:
Synonyms of black Christmas
Antonyms
Forms of black Christmas
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Questions about black Christmas
- What does black Christmas mean?
- Black Christmas means a Christmas Day or Christmas Eve on which there is no snowfall or no ground covering of snow.
- How do you use black Christmas in a sentence?
- We supposed that we were going to have a black Christmas, but we had snow and cold weather.
- What part of speech is black Christmas?
- Black Christmas is a noun.
- What is the plural of black Christmas?
- The plural of black Christmas is black Christmases.
Words near black Christmas in the dictionary
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