'Christmas carol' definitions:
Definition of 'Christmas carol'
From: WordNet
noun
Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ [syn: carol, Christmas carol]
Definition of 'Christmas carol'
From: GCIDE
- Christmas \Christ"mas\, n. [Christ + mass.] An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality. [1913 Webster]
- Christmas box. (a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas. (b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift.
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'Christmas carol'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alba,
- anthem,
- art song,
- aubade,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- ballata,
- barcarole,
- blues,
- blues song,
- boat song,
- Brautlied,
- bridal hymn,
- brindisi,
- calypso,
- canso,
- canticle,
- canzone,
- canzonet,
- canzonetta,
- carol,
- cavatina,
- chanson,
- chant,
- chantey,
- croon,
- croon song,
- dirge,
- ditty,
- drinking song,
- epithalamium,
- folk song,
- hymeneal,
- Kunstlied,
- lay,
- Liebeslied,
- lied,
- lilt,
- love song,
- love-lilt,
- matin,
- minstrel song,
- minstrelsy,
- national anthem,
- prothalamium,
- serena,
- serenade,
- serenata,
- song,
- theme song,
- torch song,
- Volkslied,
- war song,
- wedding song