Christmastime

as in Christmas
the season celebrating Christmas there are always lots of lights on the neighborhood's houses around Christmastime

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Recent Examples of Christmastime Today, their season is a kind of Christmastime among Caribbean communities. Dinkinish O’Connor, Saveur, 8 May 2025 The trade war could spell shortages in children's toys come Christmastime, experts, as well as President Trump, have warned. Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 6 May 2025 He wouldn’t be discharged until Christmastime, walked with a limp for months after that, and would struggle with his fresh physical deformities for years. Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 27 Apr. 2025 Cinema chains typically staff up around the Christmastime holidays and then shed the extra workforce after attendance stalls in the early winter months of the new year. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 15 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Christmastime
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Christmas
Noun
  • North America’s longest running community science project started in 1900: the annual Christmas Bird Count.
    Sarah Boon June 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
  • First and foremost were all the family holidays where contrarians attempted to ruin things like the wonder of Christmas by trotting out their anti-Santa Claus views.
    Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2025

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“Christmastime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Christmastime. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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