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The season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany; Christmas season, Christmas time, Christmastide, Twelvetide. The Christmas season traditionally ended with the feast of the Epiphany on January 6.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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An 18th-century English Christmas carol which describes a series of successively grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
اِثْنَا عَشَر يَوْمَا مِن عِيد الْمِيلَاد
(iṯnā ʕašar yawmā min ʕīd al-mīlād)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Belarusian:
свя́ткі
(svjátki)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Belarusian:
каля́дныя свя́ткі
(kaljádnyja svjátki)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Bengali:
বড়দিনের বারো দিন
(boṛdiner barō din)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Finnish:
joulunaika
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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French:
Douze jours de Noël
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Galician:
doce días de Nadal
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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German:
zwölf Weihnachtstage
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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German:
die Zwölften
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Greek:
Δώδεκα ημέρες των Χριστουγέννων
(Dódeka iméres ton Christougénnon)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Hindi:
क्रिस्मस के बारह दिन
(krismas ke bārah din)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Italian:
Dodici giorni di Natale
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Japanese:
クリスマスの十二日間
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Komi-Zyrian:
вежадыр
(vežadyr)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Korean:
크리스마스의 열두 일
(keuriseumaseuui yeoldu il)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Eastern Mari:
свӓткӓ
(svätkä)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Western Mari:
свӓткӓ
(svätkä)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Polish:
dwanaście dni Świąt Bożego Narodzenia
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Portuguese:
Doze dias de natal
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Russian:
свя́тки
(svjátki)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Russian:
Рожде́ственские свя́тки
(Roždéstvenskije svjátki)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Russian:
Двена́дцать дней Рождества́
(Dvenádcatʹ dnej Roždestvá)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Russian:
коля́ды
(koljády)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Russian:
святы́е дни
(svjatýje dni)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Russian:
святы́е
(svjatýje)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Spanish:
Doce días de Natal
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Tibetan:
བཅུ་གཉིས་ཉི་མའི་ཡེ་ཤུའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར།
(bcu gnyis nyi ma'i ye shu'i 'khrungs skar)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Udmurt:
вожодыр
(vožodyr)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany
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Ukrainian:
свя́тки
(svjátky)
— the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany