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Q.6
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Preposits
December 25. (Use Pre pas
Answers
First, what does Christmas mean?
Most often, the word Christmas refers to Christmas Day—the day on which the holiday is observed, most commonly December 25. The day or evening before Christmas is called Christmas Eve.
Christmas is also often used to refer to the entire Christmas season. Another word for the Christmas season is Christmastime. Generally, the season begins around the beginning of December, though some people in the US begin to decorate or engage in Christmas festivities immediately after the Thanksgiving holiday or even before (we see you putting up your lights to work off that Thanksgiving meal).
The Christmas season coincides with the holiday season, which in the US is popularly understood to include Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day. Due to its widespread observance, Christmas is a federal holiday in the US.
Christmas is also widely observed in secular (nonreligious) ways. Many nonreligious people still decorate a Christmas tree and exchange gifts on the holiday.
In religious terms, the Christmas season is sometimes considered to extend from Christmas Eve to the feast of the Epiphany or Twelfth Day on January 6. This period is sometimes called Christmastide, though this word can also be used in a more general way to refer to the period from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day.