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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Christmas Eve, Dec 24noun

    the day before Christmas

Wiktionary

  1. Christmas Evenoun

    The evening before Christmas Day.

  2. Christmas Evenoun

    The day before Christmas Day.

  3. Etymology: Christmas + eve

Wikipedia

  1. Christmas Eve

    Christmas Eve is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani for her fourth studio album, You Make It Feel Like Christmas (2017). It was released digitally as the album's second and final promotional single on October 5, 2017, through Interscope Records. The track was written by Stefani, Justin Tranter, and Michael Busbee while production was handled by busbee and Eric Valentine. Commercially, it peaked at number twenty on both Billboard's Holiday Digital Songs and Holiday Digital Song Sales charts in the United States.

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  1. christmas eve

    Christmas Eve is the day before Christmas Day, celebrated on December 24th in western culture, often marked by various customs and traditions. It is commonly observed with special gatherings, meals, religious services, gift exchanges, and other festive activities, anticipating the arrival of Christmas Day.

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  1. Christmas Eve

    Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the widely celebrated annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. It occurs on December 24 in the Western Christian Church, and is considered one of the most culturally significant celebrations in Christendom and the Western world, where it is widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation of Christmas Day. One reason celebrations occur on Christmas Eve is that the traditional Christian liturgical day starts at sunset, an inheritance from Jewish tradition. This practice is based on the story of Creation in the Book of Genesis: "And there was evening, and there was morning – the first day." This structure for the liturgical day is followed for all feast days throughout the year in the Eastern rite and is retained for Christmas in the West, where the liturgical day ordinarily begins at midnight. Many churches still ring their church bells and hold prayers in the evening before holidays; for example, the Nordic Lutheran churches. In some languages, such as the Scandinavian, Christmas Eve is simply referred to as "Christmas Evening".

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  1. christmas eve

    Read the full text of the Christmas Eve poem by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of christmas eve in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of christmas eve in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of christmas eve in a Sentence

  1. Whole Foods Employee:

    Hey guys, I’m smiling and I’m hanging out with Nigel on Christmas Eve. We’re going to embarrass ourselves! We’re going to sing.

  2. T.R. Threston:

    Take a moment to remember those you have lost along the way, and, let them know you thought of them this Christmas Eve day

  3. Brian Kelly:

    We love our jobs, but we're not getting any respect, we're not getting any time off — we get Thanksgiving off, Christmas Eve and Christmas as far as holidays — the rest of the holidays we have to work while our families are celebrating holidays.

  4. Guy Fieri:

    It just started to snow up there so my little guy, Ryder, is pretty excited, we always cook Dungeness crab in some form, like cioppino, on Christmas Eve.

  5. John Hawkins:

    Every time a new one starts it's like going to Toys R Us on Christmas Eve expecting to get a gift.


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