Dive into the magic of the season with this festive word list, guaranteed to add sparkle to your holiday conversations!

Building Christmas Vocabulary: Words to Light Up Your Holidays 🧑🏻‍🎄

The period of four weeks before Christmas

An Advent calendar is a special calendar used to mark the days leading up to Christmas

A messenger from God is important around Christmas because an angel appeared to Mary to announce the birth of Jesus

A ball-shaped Christmas decoration for hanging on a tree

the annual Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ (Christmas Day is on 25 December)

a religious song or popular hymn that people sing at Christmas

the evening or day before Christmas Day (24 December)

an evergreen plant with prickly dark green leaves and red berries

A large meal, typically a celebratory one (for example a Christmas feast)

Cheerful and jovially celebratory, usually relating to Christmas

Jack Frost represents the coming of dark, cold days, like winter in the northern hemisphere

A Christian bishop who helped the needy. Saint Nicholas transformed into the legendary character called Santa Claus, who brings Christmas presents to children around the world

Usually elves (but children are often given the honorary role as "Santa's little helper")

Decorations made from evergreens to represent everlasting life, they are usually round with no beginning or end

Another word for Christmas, usually seen in the US

The Christmas season
'The Yuletide colors of red and green are particularly favorite around the festive season.'

a deer with large antlers found in some cold climates (believed to pull the sleigh for Santa Claus or Father Christmas)