white christmas
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.81 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve in which there is snowfall or ground covered with snow.
Example Sentences
- "“It′s like frozen thistle-down!” she cried. “I hope it will snow all day and all night until everything is covered. I never saw a white Christmas.”"
- "In New York City 10,000 men struggled to clear away the heavy snow which promised New Yorkers their first white Christmas in 15 years,[…]."
- "At Environment Canada, senior climatologist David Phillips′ standard for a white Christmas calls for at least two centimeters of snow on the ground at 7 a.m. . . . “In England, if a weather guy sees a snowflake, they call it a white Christmas.”"