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julefest — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • Yule noun Christmas, or the wider Christmas season running through the Twelve Days of Christmas.

Senses

julefest is used for these senses in English:

  • Yule 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.

Yule — full definition

  1. noun Christmas, or the wider Christmas season running through the Twelve Days of Christmas.
  2. noun An older midwinter festival celebrated by pre-Christian Germanic and Norse peoples, still observed today by some modern pagans.
  3. interjection An old exclamation of Christmas cheer.

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