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Yuletide means the Christmas season — not the one day, but the stretch of days around it, roughly late December into the new year. The -tide part is an old word for a season or a time, so the word literally says "Yule time." It is a decorative word. English keeps a small set of these for Christmas, and speakers reach for them when they want warmth and tradition: greetings on cards, shop signs, carol lyrics, hotel menus for a "Yuletide feast," a radio host saying "in this Yuletide season." It is almost always used as a describing word in front of a noun — Yuletide greetings, Yuletide cheer, Yuletide carols — or after "at": at Yuletide. You very rarely hear it alone in a plain sentence. The honest truth for your students: no ordinary person plans their week around "Yuletide." They say Christmas, or the holidays. Yuletide is what English puts on the card, not what it says at the door. Knowing it is for reading and for understanding the mood a writer is choosing — slightly grand, slightly old, deliberately . Sometimes people even use it with a smile, half joking about how fancy it sounds. Compared with plain Yule, Yuletide points more clearly at the whole period rather than the feast itself, and it feels a bit less pagan and a bit more Victorian Christmas card.
聖誕季節、耶誕時節（帶古味的節慶用語，多見於卡片和歌詞）
組成Yule (the Germanic winter festival) + -tide, an old English word meaning "period, season, time around a festival." So: Yule-season. Probably goes back to an Old English *ġēoltīd, though it is only written down from about 1475. Swedish has the matching juletid.
同家族的字
- Yulethe first half — the festival itself
- Eastertidesame -tide ending: the Easter season
- springtidesame -tide ending, in its older 'season' meaning
- tidingsfrom the same old root meaning 'time, what happens', as in 'tidings of comfort and joy'
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Yuletidenoun/ˈjuːlˌtaɪd/
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datedThe period around Christmas; the Christmas season, Christmastime; specifically, Christmas itself.
- Deck the halls with boughs of holly, / Fa la la la la la la la la! / 'Tis the season to be jolly, / Fa la la la la la la la la! / Don we now our gay apparel, / Fa la la la la la la la la! / Troll the ancient yuletide carol, / Fa la la la la la la la la!
- What did the first locked drawer contain? […] a Yuletide card, bearing on it a pictorial representation of a parasitic plant, the legend Mizpah, the date Xmas 1892, the name of the senders: from Mr and Mrs M. Comerford, the versicle: May this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome glee: […]
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datedThe period of celebration of a pre-Christian festival associated with the (northern) winter solstice, later absorbed into the festival of Christmas (but sometimes recreated by modern neo-pagans).
- For this is the Yuletide, and the heathen people of the forest are gathered at the thunder-oak of Geismar to worship their god, Thor.
- It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind. It was the Yuletide, and I had come at last to the ancient sea town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in the elder time when festival was forbidden; where also they had commanded their sons to keep festival once every century, that the memory of primal secrets might not be forgotten.
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regionalThe period of southern winter in the middle of the year, sometimes celebrated in the colder, snowy regions of Australia with allusions to Christmas, which originated as a marketing gimmick.
- Note that the colder winter months (June–Aug) are the busiest season. This period is known as Yuletide—the locals' version of the Christmas period, when most places offer traditional Christmas dinners and roaring log fires.
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The flower Camellia sasanqua, native to Japan and nearby islands.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。