yuletide
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See also: Yuletide
English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Camellia_sasanqua3.jpg/220px-Camellia_sasanqua3.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]From Yule (“Germanic Winter Festival”) + -tide (“period around a festival”); compare Swedish juletid.
Noun
[edit]yuletide (countable and uncountable, plural yuletides)
- Alternative letter-case form of Yuletide (“Christmas or the Christmas season”).
- The flower Camellia sasanqua, native to Japan and nearby islands.
Synonyms
[edit]- (Christmas season): Christmastide
- (Camellia sasanqua): sasanqua
Translations
[edit]the Christmas season — see Christmas season
Camellia sasanqua — see sasanqua