Twelve Days of Christmas
Noun
  1. The season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany; Christmas season, Christmas time, Christmastide, Twelvetide. The Christmas season traditionally ended with the feast of the Epiphany on January 6.
  2. An 18th-century English Christmas carol which describes a series of successively grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas.
Synonyms Translations
  • French: Douze jours de Noël
  • German: zwölf Weihnachtstage, zwölfte
  • Italian: Dodici giorni di Natale
  • Portuguese: Doze dias de natal
  • Russian: свя́тки
  • Spanish: Doce días de Natal



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