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Navidad — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • Christmas noun The Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, held on December 25th.
  • nativity noun The birth of Jesus Christ, or a scene or display representing it.
  • Yule noun Christmas, or the wider Christmas season running through the Twelve Days of Christmas.

Senses

Navidad is used for these senses in English:

  • Christmas (originally, Christianity) A festival or holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan, and secular customs, which in Western Christianity is celebrated on December 25 (Christmas Day) in most places.
  • Nativity (Christianity) The birth of Jesus as described in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.
  • Yule Christmastide, the Christmas season, the Twelve Days of Christmas (between December 25th and January 5th).
  • nativity (now, _, dated) Someone's birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth. [from 14th c.]

Christmas — full definition

  1. noun The Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, held on December 25th.
  2. adj Coloured red and green, the traditional colours of the holiday.
  3. verb To celebrate or spend the Christmas season somewhere.

nativity — full definition

  1. noun The birth of Jesus Christ, or a scene or display representing it.
  2. noun Someone's birth, or the circumstances surrounding it.

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