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Meaning 1
A proclamation of joy at Christmas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Yule
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /juːl/
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British, Southern, Standard: /jʉwl/
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British, Southern, Standard: [jʊwl]
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US: /jul/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /jʉːl/
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Australian, New-Zealand: [juːl]
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Wales: /jɪʊl/
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Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /jʉl/
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homophone: you'll (most accents)
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rhymes with -uːl
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CMU ARPABET: Y UW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Meaning 2
Christmastide, the Christmas season, the Twelve Days of Christmas (between December 25th and January 5th).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 3
A pagan wintertime holiday celebrated by Germanic peoples, particularly the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples, or a modern reconstruction of this holiday celebrated by neo-pagans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 4
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
Alternative letter-case form of Yule.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, rare, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Christmas, Christmastide, Christmastime, Yuletide, Noel
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: season
History
Etymology
From Middle English yol, youle, from Old English ġeōl (“Christmas, Yule”), either cognate with or from Old Norse jól, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą. Cognate with Gothic 𐌾𐌹𐌿𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍃 (jiuleis); see also Old English ġēola and Old Norse ýlir.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: Joelfees — the Christmas season
- Albanian: Jule — the Christmas season
- Bulgarian: Коледа (Koleda) — the Christmas season
- Danish: jul — the Christmas season
- Dutch: Joelfeest — the Christmas season
- Esperanto: Julo — the Christmas season
- Estonian: jõulud — the Christmas season
- Faroese: jól — the Christmas season
- Finnish: joulu — the Christmas season
- French: fêtes — the Christmas season
- Galician: Nadal — the Christmas season
- Georgian: შობის დღეები (šobis dɣeebi) — the Christmas season
- German: Julfest — the Christmas season
- German: Jul — the Christmas season
- Gothic: 𐌾𐌹𐌿𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍃 (jiuleis) — the Christmas season
- Greek: Χριστούγεννα (Christoúgenna) — the Christmas season
- Icelandic: jól — the Christmas season
- Norwegian Bokmål: jul — the Christmas season
- Norwegian Nynorsk: jul — the Christmas season
- Norwegian Nynorsk: jol — the Christmas season
- Polish: Jul — the Christmas season
- Romanian: Crăciun — the Christmas season
- Russian: Йоль (Jolʹ) — the Christmas season
- Spanish: Navidad — the Christmas season
- Swedish: jul — the Christmas season
- Turkish: yul bayramı — the Christmas season
- Turkish: bocuk — the Christmas season
- Ukrainian: Юль (Julʹ) — the Christmas season
- Yiddish: יולע (yule) — the Christmas season
- Danish: jul — a pagan wintertime holiday
- Danish: julefest — a pagan wintertime holiday
- German: Julfest — a pagan wintertime holiday
- German: Jul — a pagan wintertime holiday
- Polish: Jul — a pagan wintertime holiday
- Russian: Йоль (Jolʹ) — a pagan wintertime holiday
- Ukrainian: Юль (Julʹ) — a pagan wintertime holiday
- Chinese Mandarin: 尤爾 /尤尔 (Yóu'ěr) — a surname
- Danish: Juel — a surname
- Polish: Jul — a surname