Yule Definition

yo͝ol

noun

Christmas or the Christmas season.

Webster's New World

Alternative capitalization of Yule.

Wiktionary

Christmas or the Christmas season, especially as traditionally celebrated in Northern Europe and North America with customs stemming in part from pagan celebrations of the winter solstice.

American Heritage

Synonyms:

pronoun

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

Wiktionary

A pagan wintertime holiday celebrated by Germanic peoples, particularly the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples, or a modern reconstruction of this holiday celebrated by neo-pagans.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Yule

Noun

Singular:

Yule

Plural:

yules

Origin of Yule

From the Middle English yole, from Old English Ä¡eōl, Ä¡eola (“Christmastide, midwinter"), either cognate with or from Old Norse jól, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlÄ….

From Wiktionary
In pre-Christian times, the term designated the two-month midwinter season (December and January). After Christianization, it became a narrower reference to the twelve days of Christmas.

From Wiktionary
Middle English yole from Old English geōl

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
See also Old English giuli and Old Norse ýlir.

From Wiktionary
See Yule.

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