Definitions for yuleyul

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

yuleyul(n.)

  1. Christmas, or the Christmas season.

Origin of yule:

bef. 900; ME yole, OE geōl(a), c. ON jōl orig., a pagan festival held near midwinter; akin to Go jiuleis

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Christmas, Christmastide, Christmastime, Yule, Yuletide, Noel(noun)

    period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6

Wiktionary

  1. Yule(ProperNoun)

    Yuletide, Christmastide, the Twelve Days of Christmas.

  2. Yule(ProperNoun)

    A wintertime holiday celebrated by the pagan Scandinavian, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon peoples.

  3. Yule(ProperNoun)

    neo-pagan midwinter festival; a celebration of the winter solstice; one of the eight Sabbats celebrated in Wicca

  4. yule(Noun)

    Christmastide, the Christmas season, the Twelve Days of Christmas (between December 24 and January 6).

  5. Origin: geol, geola, from jehwlan. Old English (Anglian) had a native cognate of the word, recorded as giuli. In pre-Christian times this was the term for the two-month midwinter season (December and January).

Webster Dictionary

  1. Yule(noun)

    christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our Savior

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Yule

    the old name for the festival of Christmas, originally a heathen one, observed at the winter solstice in joyous recognition of the return northward of the sun at that period, being a relic in the N. of the old sun worship.


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