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Twelve Days of Christmas en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. The season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany; Christmas season, Christmas time, Christmastide, Twelvetide. The Christmas season traditionally ended with the feast of the Epiphany on January 6.
  2. An 18th-century English Christmas carol which describes a series of successively grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas.

Forms

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The Twelve Days of Christmas canonical lexicographic

Relateds

Advent · Epiphany

Synonyms

Christmas season · Twelvetide · Christmastide · Christmas time

Translations (29)

bo བཅུ་གཉིས་ཉི་མའི་ཡེ་ཤུའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར། (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · ru коля́ды (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · pl dwanaście dni Świąt Bożego Narodzenia (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · be каля́дныя свя́ткі (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · ru святы́е дни (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · pt Doze dias de natal (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · ko 크리스마스의 열두 일 (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · gl doce días de Nadal (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · kpv вежадыр (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · be свя́ткі (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · ja クリスマスの十二日間 (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · fr Douze jours de Noël (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · el Δώδεκα ημέρες των Χριστουγέννων (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · es Doce días de Natal (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · ru свя́тки (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · fi joulunaika (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · hi क्रिस्मस के बारह दिन (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · it Dodici giorni di Natale (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · ar اِثْنَا عَشَر يَوْمَا مِن عِيد الْمِيلَاد (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · de zwölf Weihnachtstage (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · uk свя́тки (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · mrj свӓткӓ (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · udm вожодыр (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · ru Двена́дцать дней Рождества́ (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · ru святы́е (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · bn বড়দিনের বারো দিন (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · ru Рожде́ственские свя́тки (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · mhr свӓткӓ (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) · de die Zwölften (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany)