Christmas stocking | a stocking that is filled with small Christmas presents |
Christmas tree | an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration |
floor level storey story | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale, what level is the office on? |
news article news story newspaper article | an article reporting news |
lead lead story | a news story of major importance |
story | a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events, he writes stories for the magazines |
adventure story heroic tale | a story of an adventure |
mystery mystery story whodunit | a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie |
detective story | a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution |
love story romance | a story dealing with love |
short story | a prose narrative shorter than a novel |
history account chronicle story | a record or narrative description of past events, a history of France, he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president, the story of exposure to lead |
biography life life story life history | an account of the series of events making up a person's life |
Christmas card | a card expressing a Christmas greeting |
report news report story account write up | a short account of the news, the report of his speech, the story was on the o'clock news, the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious |
fib story tale tarradiddle taradiddle | a trivial lie, he told a fib about eating his spinach, how can I stop my child from telling stories? |
fairytale fairy tale fairy story cock-and-bull story song and dance | an interesting but highly implausible story, often told as an excuse |
dirty joke dirty story blue joke blue story | an indelicate joke |
funny story good story funny remark funny | an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line), she told a funny story, she made a funny |
shaggy dog story | a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness |
carol Christmas carol | joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ |
narrative narration story tale | a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events, presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program, his narrative was interesting, Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children |
sob story sob stuff | a sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress, designed to arouse sympathy |
fairytale fairy tale fairy story | a story about fairies, told to amuse children |
plum pudding Christmas pudding | a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake |
Christmas cake | a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas |
Santa Claus Santa Kriss Kringle Father Christmas Saint Nicholas Saint Nick St. Nick | the legendary patron saint of children, an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas |
amabilis fir white fir Pacific silver fir red silver fir Christmas tree Abies amabilis | medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiers, leaves smell of orange when crushed |
European silver fir Christmas tree Abies alba | tall timber tree of central and southern Europe having a regular crown and grey bark |
Christmas rose winter rose black hellebore Helleborus niger | European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers |
Christmas cactus Schlumbergera buckleyi Schlumbergera baridgesii | epiphytic cactus of Brazilian ancestry widely cultivated as a houseplant having jointed flat segments and usually rose-purple flowers that bloom in winter |
Christmas begonia blooming-fool begonia Begonia cheimantha | hybrid winter-blooming begonia grown for its many large pink flowers |
Christmas bells | any of several plants of the genus Blandfordia having large orange or crimson flowers |
toyon tollon Christmasberry Christmas berry Heteromeles arbutifolia Photinia arbutifolia | ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits, often placed in genus Photinia |
flame tree fire tree Christmas tree Nuytsia floribunda | a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers, parasitic on roots of grasses |
American holly Christmas holly | an evergreen tree |
Christmas bush Christmas tree Ceratopetalum gummiferum | Australian tree or shrub with red flowers, often used in Christmas decoration |
Christmasberry Christmas berry Lycium carolinianum | spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries |
poinsettia Christmas star Christmas flower lobster plant Mexican flameleaf painted leaf Euphorbia pulcherrima | tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers |
Christmas fern canker brake dagger fern evergreen wood fern Polystichum acrostichoides | North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds |
ground pine Christmas green | any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches |
Christmas present Christmas gift | a present given at Christmas time |
Christmas box | a present given at Christmas for services during the year |
hemophilia B haemophilia B Christmas disease | a clotting disorder similar to hemophilia A but caused by a congenital deficiency of factor IX |
Christmas factor factor IX | coagulation factor whose absence is associated with hemophilia B |
Christmas Christmas Day Xmas Dec | a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ, a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland |
Christmas Eve Dec | the day before Christmas |
Christmas Christmastide Christmastime Yule Yuletide Noel | period extending from Dec. to Jan. |