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Mother Christmas

Mother Christmas proper noun: the wife of Father Christmas; Mrs. Claus.

Proper noun

Mother Christmas (plural Mother Christmases or Mother Christmasses)

  1. The wife of Father Christmas; Mrs. Claus.
    • One ball is very much like another, just as one Academy is very much like another, Father Christmassses, Mother Christmasses, Red Riding Hoods, Flowers, Chinamen, Seasons, Brides, Bridesmaids, Carmens, Crusoes, and Costers, all were there, jostling one another as they have jostled one another a...1898 December 19, “Covent Garden Fancy Dress Ball”, in The Morning Post, number 39,481, London, →OCLC, page 6, column 4
    • A mild uproar at the other end of the bar told me without looking that Bunny, the Mother Christmasses and the rest of the band had arrived and had walked into the middle of the darts match.1989, Mike Ripley, chapter 6, in Angel Hunt (Fitzroy Maclean Angel; 3), Long Preston, North Yorkshire: Magna Large Print Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 134

Examples of Mother Christmas in a sentence

  • At Cape Town City Libraries the little children thought it was Christmas and the staff felt like Mother Christmasses handing out gifts all week.1995, The Cape Librarian, volume 39, Cape Town, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, columns 1–2:
  • The previously submitted 67 images — which include a Mother Christmas figure as a counterpart to Santa Claus — were scheduled to be voted on this month.2016 May 13, Karen Workman, “Emojis Would Show Women Doing More Than Painting Their Nails”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New...

Forms of Mother Christmas

pluralMother Christmases
pluralMother Christmasses
alternative abbreviation (informal)Mother Xmas

Origin of Mother Christmas

By analogy with Father Christmas.

Questions about Mother Christmas

What does Mother Christmas mean?
Mother Christmas means the wife of Father Christmas; Mrs. Claus.
How do you use Mother Christmas in a sentence?
At Cape Town City Libraries the little children thought it was Christmas and the staff felt like Mother Christmasses handing out gifts all week.
What part of speech is Mother Christmas?
Mother Christmas is a proper noun.

Words near Mother Christmas in the dictionary

  1. Mother Carey's chicken
  2. Mother Carey's chickens
  3. Mother Carey's geese
  4. Mother Carey's goose
  5. mother cell
  6. Mother Christmas
  7. Mother Christmases
  8. Mother Christmasses
  9. mother church
  10. mother churches
  11. mother cities

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