Christmas Eve

noun

1. the evening or the day preceding Christmas.

Christmas Eve

noun

1. the evening or the whole day before Christmas Day

Word History and Origins

Origin of Christmas Eve¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

Wolves and Chelsea were forced to play on Christmas Eve in 2023 - the first time a top-flight game had been scheduled on that day for 28 years.

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It was due to open on Monday 1 December until 4 January, excluding Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

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On Christmas Eve, a radio station in Crescent City dedicated a show to them, said their names, “and when ‘Silent Night’ came on, there wasn’t a dry eye in the galley,” he said.

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After a botched Christmas Eve dinner, the Stones spend their evening fractured, just before the big day rolls around.

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Decades after he finished the film, Mr. Fox found himself pulled in all over again by a TV broadcast one Christmas Eve.

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