Christmas

n.
Christmas box
  1. A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas.
  2. A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift.
    3. Christmas carol ,
    a carol sung at, or suitable for, Christmas.
    Christmas day .
    Same as Christmas.
    Christmas eve ,
    the evening before Christmas.
    Christmas fern (Bot.),
    an evergreen North American fern (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration in winter.
    Christmas flower, Christmas rose ,
    the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter.
    Christmas tree ,
    a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.