Definition of Christmas

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Christmas

An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.

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Christmas Quotations

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
Stephen Leacock

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
Richard Bach

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
Orson Welles

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Phyllis Diller

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge

Christmas Translations

Christmas in Afrikaans is Kersfees, Kersmis
Christmas in Danish is jul
Christmas in Dutch is Kerstfeest
Christmas in Finnish is joulu
Christmas in German is Weihnachten
Christmas in Italian is Natale
christmas in Norwegian is jul
Christmas in Spanish is Navidad
Christmas in Swedish is jul

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