Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

festive season

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables: fes-tive sea-son
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The period around Christmas and New Year.

Example Sentences

"In the late 19th and early 20th century, the festive season was also a period of great mobility before, during and after Christmas Day. But the railways kept working."

Inflected Forms

festive seasons (plural)

Questions

What does festive season mean?: The period around Christmas and New Year.

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