{
  "id": "christmas.holiday",
  "term": "christmas",
  "sense": "holiday",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 19,
  "arena": "christmas",
  "domain": "holiday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a holiday that occurs on a date in the last month of the year when people gather and give gifts",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "holiday.leisure",
      "december.date",
      "gift.present",
      "date.social",
      "give.transfer",
      "occurs.event",
      "people.social",
      "last.order",
      "month.temporal",
      "year.time"
    ],
    "interaction": "the components combine to form a recurring seasonal observance centered on social gathering and gift exchange during the final month of the annual cycle",
    "novel_properties": [
      "seasonal recurrence in December",
      "coordinated gift exchange",
      "cultural emphasis on year-end celebration"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, millions gathered at Rockefeller Center in New York City to light the Christmas tree on December 4.",
      "domain": "event"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Salvation Army deployed 25,000 bell ringers across the U.S. in December 2022 to collect gifts for Christmas charity drives.",
      "domain": "institution"
    },
    {
      "text": "Amazon reported delivering over 1.5 billion gifts worldwide in the week before Christmas 2021.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "holiday.leisure",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "christmas"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "added missing temporal anchor concepts (last.order, month.temporal, year.time) required by 'last month of the year' in definition"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-christmas.holiday"
}