yuletide

See also: Yuletide

English

Camellia sasanqua

Etymology

From Yule (“Germanic Winter Festival”) +‎ -tide (“period around a festival, season”); compare Swedish juletid.

Pronunciation

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Noun

yuletide (countable and uncountable, plural yuletides)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Yuletide (“Christmas or the Christmas season”).
   • 2004 November 27, Robert V. Camuto, “Old World Holiday: It’s All Marketing”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 March 2026:

     During nearly 20 years of marriage, our Christmas decor rollout has grown – from a single hatbox of ornaments and lights to seven substantial cartons, filled with yuletide stuff that my wife has accumulated on a trail from Vienna through Saks Fifth Avenue to the Texas Hill country.

2. The flower Camellia sasanqua, native to Japan and nearby islands.

Synonyms

• (Christmas season): Christmastide
• (Camellia sasanqua): sasanqua

Translations

the Christmas season — see Christmas season

Camellia sasanqua — see sasanqua