white Christmas
white Christmas noun: a Christmas Day or Christmas Eve in which there is snowfall or ground covered with snow.
Noun
white Christmas (plural white Christmases)
- A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve in which there is snowfall or ground covered with snow.
- “It′s like frozen thistle-down!” she cried. “I hope it will snow all day and all night until everything is covered. I never saw a white Christmas.”1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 8, in The Little Colonel′s Christmas Vacation
- In New York City 10,000 men struggled to clear away the heavy snow which promised New Yorkers their first white Christmas in 15 years,[…].1945 December 31, “The Big Snow”, in Life, page 23
- Antonyms:
- black Christmas
Antonyms of white Christmas
Forms of white Christmas
| plural | white Christmases |
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Words formed from white Christmas
Questions about white Christmas
- What does white Christmas mean?
- White Christmas means a Christmas Day or Christmas Eve in which there is snowfall or ground covered with snow.
- What part of speech is white Christmas?
- White Christmas is a noun.
- What is the plural of white Christmas?
- The plural of white Christmas is white Christmases.
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