christmas glossary through quotes about christmas for english learners

1. Christmas glossary
to wassail – to go
from house to
The best of all gifts around any
bells house at
Christmas tree is the presence of a Christmas time
candles
happy family all wrapped up in each singing carols
cards
other.
to celebrate
Burton Hillis
festival
family reunion
Frosty
greetings
holiday
merry candy canes
Noel
parades eggnog - a
traditional
party This, the spirit of Christmas, that forever
Christmas drink
red/green and ever endures. May it leave its richest made of beaten
blessing in the hearts of you and yours. eggs, milk or
season
cream, and sugar
spirit Author Unknown
stocking stuffers
stockings Never worry about the size of your
tradition Christmas tree. In the eyes of children,
traffic they are all 30 feet tall.
trips Larry Wilde
vacation
to wassail
candy
candy canes
Christmas cookies
eggnog

2. A mince pie is
fruitcake
I have always thought of Christmas time, a British festive
ham sweet pastry,
when it has come round, as a good time;
mince pies traditionally
a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the consumed during the
mince meat Christmas and New
only time I know of, in the long calendar
(vagdalthús) Year period. Mince
of the year, when men and women seem
pies are filled
pie by one consent to open their shut-up with mincemeat – a
plum pudding hearts freely, and to think of people preserve typically
containing apple,
punch below them as if they really were fellow dried fruits such
sauce passengers to the grave, and not another as raisins andsultanas,
spice tea spices, and
race of creatures bound on other
either suet or
sweet potato journeys. ~Charles Dickens vegetable shortening.
turkey
holly (magyal)
mistletoe Isn't it funny that at Christmas
(fagyöngy) something in you gets so lonely for - I
poinsettia don't know what exactly, but it's
(mikulásvirág) something that you don't mind so much
wreath not having at other times. ~Kate L.
angels Bosher
christmas wreath
Christmas Tree
artificial
cedar
Christmas tree I sometimes think we expect too much of
decorations Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it
tinsel - strips of shiny
fir (fenyő) the long arrears of kindliness and material like metal, used as
humanity of the whole year. As for me, decorations, especially at
pine (erdei fenyő) Christmas
I like to take my Christmas a little at a
star
time, all through the year. And thus I
tinsel
drift along into the holidays - let them
crowd
overtake me unexpectedly - waking up
gift boxes
some find morning and suddenly saying
lists
to myself: "Why, this is Christmas
presents
Day!" ~David Grayson

3. jolly - happy
and cheerful
ribbon
sales A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It
wrapping paper makes no noise at all,
Santa Claus But softly gives itself away. ~Eva Logue
chimney
elves
fairies
jolly
North Pole
reindeer
Rudolph
sledge
sleigh Oh look, yet another Christmas TV
sleigh bells special! How touching to have the
excited meaning of Christmas brought to us by
exhausted cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have
happy ever guessed that product consumption,
sad popular entertainment, and spirituality
would mix so harmoniously? ~Bill
Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes sledge - a vehicle for
Mistletoe travelling over snow and
ice, with long narrow strips
There’s a fun tradition of wood or metal instead of
that North Americans
When we were children we were grateful wheels.
follow during
Christmas. Mistletoe is
to those who filled our stockings at
often hung from a
doorway between two Christmas time. Why are we not to trim the tree –
rooms. If someone to decorate the tree
stands under the grateful to God for filling our stockings
mistletoe, it is with legs? ~G.K. Chesterton Christmas
customary for ornaments – are
someone else (usually
ornaments used to
a member of the
opposite sex) to kiss decorate the tree
him/her. It can be and placed around
quite a surprise to be the house
suddenly kissed, but
the person who is
kissed usually quickly
realizes they must be
standing under
mistletoe.

4. to enmesh - (formal) to
involve sb/sth in a bad
situation that it is not
Once again we find ourselves enmeshed easy to escape from
in the Holiday Season, that very special
nativity scene – time of year when we join with our
is a scene
depicting Jesus’ loved ones in sharing centuries-old
birth. Usually traditions such as trying to find a
Joseph and Mary
parking space at the mall. We garland -
are in a stable with
a wreath, chain, or
shepherds and traditionally do this in my family by string made to be
magi or wise men
with gifts gathered driving around the parking lot until we worn for celebration
around, angels on or decoration, esp.
see a shopper emerge from the mall,
the roof and a star one made of flowers,
above the whole then we follow her, in very much the leaves, vines, or the
scene. Some same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who like.
nativity scenes are
2,000 years ago followed a star, week
quite small and
after week, until it led them to a
parking space. ~Dave Barry
(Christmas) carolers
– are groups of
people that walk
down a street going
manger – from house to house
historically, a small singing Christmas
wooden trough that carols. Usually the
animals ate hay people in the house
from. Jesus was put will come to the door
in a manger after he and watch the
was born, so some carolers sing. It is a
people set up a tradition to give each
manger with a There is a remarkable breakdown of of the carolers
plastic baby in it and taste and intelligence at Christmastime. something after they
animals around. sing - usually a small
Mature, responsible grown men wear
snack such as a
ties made of holly leaves and drink chocolate, or some
alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks other treat around
the house, or even a
Boxing Day - and cottage cheese in them. ~P.J.
glass of eggnog, if the
The day after O'Rourke carolers are old
Christmas day enough to drink.
when presents
are given to
extended family
and friends.

5. Christmas Father Christmas - An
Stocking - A sock I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its alternate name for St
or stocking hung
clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Nicolas, first introduced
on children's beds
by 16th Century
on Christmas Eve Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. Protestants to avoid
for Santa to fill
with presents. The ~E.M. Forster Catholic Saints. In
tradition is thought America this became
to date from St Santa Claus, from the
Nicolas who Dutch SinterKlaas, whilst
sometimes left a If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, in German speaking
coin-filled sock at countries he became
wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas? Weihnachtsmann or
the doorstep of
needy people on ~Don Meredith Christmas Man.
Christmas Eve.
The Supreme Court has ruled that they
cannot have a nativity scene in
Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any
religious reasons. They couldn't find
three wise men and a virgin. ~Jay Leno