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Christenmas

Christenmas is the obsolete form of Christmas.

Meaning of Christmas

Proper noun

Christmas (countable and uncountable, plural Christmases or Christmasses)

  1. (also, attributive) A festival or holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan, and secular customs including gift-giving, which in Western Christianity is celebrated on December 25 (Christmas Day) in most places.
    • Do you celebrate Christmas?
  2. (also, attributive) An uninhabited mining community in Gila County, Arizona.
  3. (also, attributive) A census-designated place in Orange County, Florida.
  4. (also, attributive) An unincorporated community in Au Train Township, Alger County, Michigan.
  5. (also, attributive) An unincorporated community in Bolivar County, Mississippi.
  6. (also, attributive) A surname.

See all 15 meanings of Christmas

Forms of Christenmas

pluralChristenmases

Questions about Christenmas

What is Christenmas the obsolete form of?
Christenmas is the obsolete form of Christmas.

Words near Christenmas in the dictionary

  1. christenees
  2. christener
  3. christeners
  4. christening
  5. christenings
  6. Christenmas
  7. Christenmases
  8. christens
  9. Christensen
  10. Christensens
  11. Christenson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Christenmas (page history and authors); Christmas (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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