Definition of Christmas Eve
:the day before Christmas :December 24
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Christmas Eve
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Christmas
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: a Christian feast on December 25 or among some Eastern Orthodox Christians on January 7 that commemorates the birth of Christ and is usually observed as a legal holiday
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: christmastide
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eve
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: evening
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: the evening or the day before a special day
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: the period immediately preceding
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: the first woman, the wife of Adam, and the mother of Cain and Abel
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