The Twelve Days of Christmas; the period from Christmas Day to Epiphany. / The Christmas season.

A non-self-governing territory of Australia, located in the Indian Ocean. / Kiritimati, an island of Kiribati.

The Christian sacrament at which someone, usually a child, is baptized and given a Christian name. / Any instance of someone's or something's being christened.

present participle of christen

The inexorable tendency for the commercial aspects of Christmas to appear earlier every year.

plural of Christian name

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of christen

simple past tense and past participle of christen

(transitive) To make unchristian or non-Christian. / (transitive) To deprive of Christian character or aspect. / (intransitive) To become un-Christian. / (intransitive) To renounce one's Christian faith.

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Christianize.