The season or time of Christmas, typically extending from Christmas Eve through Epiphany (January 6) or the end of the year.
From Christmas combined with -tide (from Old English tid, meaning 'time' or 'season'). The suffix -tide appears in other seasonal terms like 'Eastertide' and 'Yuletide' and reflects older English ways of marking seasonal periods.
The word 'Christmastide' comes from a time when English divided the year into named seasons around major religious festivals—'Christmastide' could last weeks, giving people a spiritually-marked span of time to celebrate together.
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