(banking) A type of savings scheme in which a person pays in money through the course of a year and gets back a total at around Christmas time ready to buy gifts or treats for Christmas. Such schemes have been run by banks and retailers and generally only involve fairly small amounts of money.

A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve on which there is a ground covering of snow or snowfall.

(set phrase, figuratively) Used as a reminder or warning regarding an impending deadline.

Christmas season; Christmastide; yuletide

(ecclesiastical) The sacrament of applying chrism to complete baptism in the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches. / (ecclesiastical) In general, the act of applying chrism, or consecrated oil.

The annual cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches, usually beginning from the Advent.

plural of Christmas time

(religion, Christianity) Alternative form of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

(colloquial) An expletive, used to express outrage or disgust.

Synonym of toyon (“plant or its berry”) (Photinia arbutifolia, syn. Heteromeles arbutifolia) / Synonym of spiceberry (“plant or its berry”)