Christmas treen.

Brit.

/ˈkrɪsməs triː/, U.S.

/ˈkrɪsməs ˌtri/

Forms: also with capital initial in the second element.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Christmas n.¹, tree n.

Etymology: < Christmas n.¹ + tree n.In sense 1a after German Weihnachtsbaum (late 18th cent.; first half of the 17th cent. as der weynacht baum ). In sense 2 the plants are so called because they flower near to Christmas in the southern hemisphere. In sense 4 apparently with allusion to the presence of a decorated Christmas tree at such parties.

a. An evergreen tree (usually a conifer), or an artificial tree imitating this, set up and decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel, etc., at Christmas.Originally a feature of Christmas celebrations in Germany, Christmas trees had become familiar in English-speaking countries by the middle of the 19th cent., but were more common in the United States than elsewhere. In the United Kingdom, where they were originally associated with German members of the royal family, they did not become a common feature of Christmas celebrations at home until the early 20th cent.The following quot. demonstrates familiarity with the German custom in court circles in the late 18th cent.:

a1839 C. L. H. Papendiek Court & Private Life Time Queen Charlotte (1887) II. xviii. 158 This Christmas [i.e. that of 1789] Mr. Papendiek proposed an illuminated tree, according to the German fashion.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > Christmas tree

Christmas tree1826

society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > festivities associated with Christmas > articles associated with

hollyc1150

Christmas lights1597

mince pie1604

Christmas puddingc1650

Christmas present1663

Christmas gift1751

Christmas decoration1818

Christmas tree1826

tree1851

wesley-bob1859

Christmas card1860

bauble1862

Advent calendar1867

1826 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. May 556/1 The happy parents were busily employed in gilding the apples and nuts which were designed to glitter at the approaching festival between the lights of the green Christmas-tree.

1848 Illustr. London News 1 Jan. 431/1 Christmas Festivities at Windsor..the sideboards were surmounted with stately ‘Christmas Trees’, glittering with pendant bonbons, etc.

1932 Extension Mag. Feb. 28/2 How tear-provoking it is to see a group of young children around a Christmas tree with eyes shining in expectancy.

1989 P. Farmer Thicker than Water (1991) xi. 152 There were paper chains up in all the corridors and a big Christmas tree in the hall alongside the stage.

2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Mar. (Styles section) 6/2 I gazed at our Christmas tree, a fake evergreen... I decided next year I wanted the real thing.

b. In similative use, as the type of something brightly illuminated or decorated, as in lit up like a Christmas tree.

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1829 Christian Teacher's Man. Nov. 27 Paul quietly let them all hang on their gifts, and looked at last, like a christmas tree, hung round with presents.

1939 H. Channon Diary 23 Mar. in R. R. James Chips (1967) iv. 190 The Duchess of Portland looked like a Christmas Tree, as did Circe Londonderry and Mollie Buccleuch and others.

2003 N.Y. Times 21 Sept. 1/1 I am looking at my phones, and there is only one busy line... They should be lit up like a Christmas tree.

a. Australian. Any of several Australian trees or shrubs which flower in the summer and may be used for decoration at Christmas; esp. the fire tree Nuytsia floribunda. Also with distinguishing word or words. Cf. Christmas bush n. (b) at Christmas n.¹ and int. Compounds 3.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > names applied to various Australasian species

pepper tree1773

apple tree1801

white boxc1830

Christmas tree1844

mapau1853

maple1858

leopard-wood1859

red ash1863

sycamore1866

New Zealand orange tree1898

five-finger1926

leopard-tree1927

maple1934

1844 L. A. Meredith Notes & Sketches New S. Wales xiii. 127 Sydney Christmas-tree... The shrub chosen as the Sydney ‘Christmas’ is well worthy of the honour.

1860 G. Bennett Gatherings of Naturalist in Austral. xvii. 324 That elegant tree, named Christmas-tree, Officer-tree, and Lightwood by the colonists (Ceratopetalum gummiferum), is preserved on all the grounds where it is found growing wild.

1942 C. Barrett Austral. Wild Flower Bk. 39 Vandalism mutilates, if it does not destroy, hundreds of Christmas trees in the bush near Sydney: people carry home in their cars whole branches for home decoration.

1966 Times 11 Nov. (W. Austral. Suppl.) p. iv/2 The hot gold cascade of nuytsia floribunda the parasitic Christmas tree.

2011 @MarcLisa_Trivia 1 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 30 July 2019) The Australian Christmas tree can flower during the hot, dry southern Christmas because it taps in to nearby plant roots.

b. New Zealand. The pohutukawa tree, Metrosideros excelsa, which in December and January bears clusters of flowers with inconspicuous petals and long bright red stamens. Also with distinguishing word or words.

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1857 New-Zealander 30 Dec. The sides were tastefully decorated with flags, branches, and flowers of the scarlet Pohutukawa, or ‘Christmas tree’.

1890 J. C. Firth Nation Making ii. 15 Sitting one evening about Christmas under the shadow of a Pohutakawa (the Christmas tree) laden at this season, with masses of splendid crimson flowers.

1944 W. R. B. Oliver in Korero (N.Z.) (AEWS Background Bull.) 11 Sept. 13 The glory of the Auckland coast, at least in mid-summer, is the pohutukawa or Christmas tree.

2002 Y. Baskin Plague of Rats & Rubbervines xii. 286 Red-crowned parakeets..hopped ahead of us on the trail under a dense canopy of tree ferns and an immense, gnarled New Zealand Christmas tree.

a. An object, ornament, pattern, design, etc., resembling a Christmas tree (sense 1a) in shape or appearance; a representation of a Christmas tree.

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1865 Sharpe's London Mag. Dec. 325/1 She screwed her yarn-winder on to the edge of the table, thus making a Christmas-tree.

1954 N.Y. Times 11 Dec. 20/1 The façade..is blanketed in strings of lights that form a Christmas tree.

1974 Colonnade (Milledgeville, Georgia) 1 Nov. 11/1 Cup is planning to make a Christmas tree out of pop cans (coke, sprite, Dr. Pepper, Grape) you name it they want it.

2010 S. C. Love Dress in Window xi. 78 I cut a Christmas tree out of green tissue paper, pasted it on the green glass holder and topped it with a yellow star.

b. Any of various devices or mechanical structures thought to resemble a Christmas tree in some way (e.g. in appearance or through the presence of coloured lights); esp. (in oil or gas drilling) a typically cruciform assembly of valves, spools, gauges, and chokes, fitted to a wellhead and used to regulate the flow of oil or gas.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > with specific shape

sword1530

spider1860

arm1881

bell1881

Christmas tree1917

1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 12 The movable mounting for the observer's gun in the rear cockpit was a weird contraption like a giant catapult... We called it the Christmas Tree, the Heath Robinson, the Jabberwock, [etc.].

1930 W. H. Osgood Increasing Recov. Petroleum II. xvii. 711 Various types of packed casing heads are used in the casing-head or Christmas tree assembly on gas-lift wells.

1948 Amer. Speech 23 37 Christmas Tree. This electric indicator board resembles the object from which its name is derived only because the lights on it are red and green. The function of the Christmas tree is to give proper notification that all the necessary valves and hatches are closed when a submarine dives.

2014 H. Fang & M. Duan Offshore Operation Facilities ii. 272 Christmas trees used in offshore oil and gas fields include overwater Christmas trees and subsea Christmas trees.

4. Frequently with capital initials. A communal Christmas party; esp. one for (underprivileged) children, organized by a school, charitable organization, etc.Found in several varieties of English, but uncommon in British usage.Attested earlier in Christmas Tree Party in the same sense (see quot. 1856).

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1856 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 12 Jan. I was at a Christmas Tree Party.., and the names of the children were called one after another, and all got something.]

1870 Delphi (Indiana) Jrnl. 9 Feb. Rev. J. R. Berry and family..were absent from home attending a Christmas Tree at the church.

1940 Winnipeg Free Press 29 Nov. 13/4 The Ladies' auxiliary to the 11th Medium battery, R.C.A., is planning to hold a Christmas tree when members will entertain the children of men serving in the battery.

1991 Iscor Managem. Ladies Club Newslet. in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) 1 This year we are planning a Christmas Tree for the children of Black Iscor employees.

2011 Warwick (Queensland) Daily News (Nexis) 29 Nov. 10 The 87th Christmas Tree will be held on December 17 this year. Thousands of presents have been purchased for local children.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier.

a. With the sense ‘of or relating to a Christmas tree or Christmas trees; characteristic or reminiscent of (the shape of) a Christmas tree’.

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1842 Boston Investigator 16 Mar. The understanding of boys and girls grows out of Christmas-tree delusion, finding out the real object and givers of the mysterious presents.

1888 Scotsman 31 Dec. 1/6 (advt.) Shrubs of the Christmas tree pattern.

1966 Financial Times 15 Dec. 2/5 Commercial Christmas tree growing tends to be confined more to the south and west of England nowadays.

1990 National Gardening Mar. 8/1 Here in southern California, most of the trees you see in the Christmas tree lots are Douglas and Noble firs.

2017 Brisbane News (Nexis) 13 Dec. 24 The shape of this tree is conical, the traditional Christmas tree shape.

b. With the sense ‘used to decorate a Christmas tree’, as in Christmas tree bauble, Christmas tree decoration, Christmas tree lights, etc.

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1851 Morning Advertiser 25 Nov. 1/4 (advt.) A splendid Assortment of Twelfth Cake and Christmas Tree Ornaments.

1915 Chamberlin's May 22 Christmas tree baubles of tinsel and glass may be hard to find.

1989 C. Dickinson Widows' Adventures Prol. 9 I unplugged the Christmas tree lights and when they were off I felt better.

2018 Knutsford Guardian (Nexis) 20 Dec. (heading) Children made a spectacle of themselves with their novel Christmas tree decorations.

C2. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘that has a Christmas tree ——’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as in Christmas tree-patterned, Christmas tree-shaped.

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1923 Youth's Compan. 23 (index) Christmas Tree-shaped Verse, 778.

1964 N.Y. Times 17 Dec. 26/5 (advt.) Our Christmas tree patterned tie designed expressly for us.

2018 Morden Times (Nexis) 20 Dec. a6 I'm standing at the kitchen counter, pushing a Christmas tree-shaped cookie cutter into a sticky layer of sugar cookie dough.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	christmas tree
释义	Christmas treen. Brit. /ˈkrɪsməs triː/, U.S. /ˈkrɪsməs ˌtri/ Forms: also with capital initial in the second element. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Christmas n.¹, tree n. Etymology: < Christmas n.¹ + tree n.In sense 1a after German Weihnachtsbaum (late 18th cent.; first half of the 17th cent. as der weynacht baum ). In sense 2 the plants are so called because they flower near to Christmas in the southern hemisphere. In sense 4 apparently with allusion to the presence of a decorated Christmas tree at such parties. 1. a. An evergreen tree (usually a conifer), or an artificial tree imitating this, set up and decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel, etc., at Christmas.Originally a feature of Christmas celebrations in Germany, Christmas trees had become familiar in English-speaking countries by the middle of the 19th cent., but were more common in the United States than elsewhere. In the United Kingdom, where they were originally associated with German members of the royal family, they did not become a common feature of Christmas celebrations at home until the early 20th cent.The following quot. demonstrates familiarity with the German custom in court circles in the late 18th cent.: a1839 C. L. H. Papendiek Court & Private Life Time Queen Charlotte (1887) II. xviii. 158 This Christmas [i.e. that of 1789] Mr. Papendiek proposed an illuminated tree, according to the German fashion. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > Christmas tree Christmas tree1826 society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > festivities associated with Christmas > articles associated with hollyc1150 Christmas lights1597 mince pie1604 Christmas puddingc1650 Christmas present1663 Christmas gift1751 Christmas decoration1818 Christmas tree1826 tree1851 wesley-bob1859 Christmas card1860 bauble1862 Advent calendar1867 1826 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. May 556/1 The happy parents were busily employed in gilding the apples and nuts which were designed to glitter at the approaching festival between the lights of the green Christmas-tree. 1848 Illustr. London News 1 Jan. 431/1 Christmas Festivities at Windsor..the sideboards were surmounted with stately ‘Christmas Trees’, glittering with pendant bonbons, etc. 1932 Extension Mag. Feb. 28/2 How tear-provoking it is to see a group of young children around a Christmas tree with eyes shining in expectancy. 1989 P. Farmer Thicker than Water (1991) xi. 152 There were paper chains up in all the corridors and a big Christmas tree in the hall alongside the stage. 2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Mar. (Styles section) 6/2 I gazed at our Christmas tree, a fake evergreen... I decided next year I wanted the real thing. b. In similative use, as the type of something brightly illuminated or decorated, as in lit up like a Christmas tree. ΚΠ 1829 Christian Teacher's Man. Nov. 27 Paul quietly let them all hang on their gifts, and looked at last, like a christmas tree, hung round with presents. 1939 H. Channon Diary 23 Mar. in R. R. James Chips (1967) iv. 190 The Duchess of Portland looked like a Christmas Tree, as did Circe Londonderry and Mollie Buccleuch and others. 2003 N.Y. Times 21 Sept. 1/1 I am looking at my phones, and there is only one busy line... They should be lit up like a Christmas tree. 2. a. Australian. Any of several Australian trees or shrubs which flower in the summer and may be used for decoration at Christmas; esp. the fire tree Nuytsia floribunda. Also with distinguishing word or words. Cf. Christmas bush n. (b) at Christmas n.¹ and int. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > names applied to various Australasian species pepper tree1773 apple tree1801 white boxc1830 Christmas tree1844 mapau1853 maple1858 leopard-wood1859 red ash1863 sycamore1866 New Zealand orange tree1898 five-finger1926 leopard-tree1927 maple1934 1844 L. A. Meredith Notes & Sketches New S. Wales xiii. 127 Sydney Christmas-tree... The shrub chosen as the Sydney ‘Christmas’ is well worthy of the honour. 1860 G. Bennett Gatherings of Naturalist in Austral. xvii. 324 That elegant tree, named Christmas-tree, Officer-tree, and Lightwood by the colonists (Ceratopetalum gummiferum), is preserved on all the grounds where it is found growing wild. 1942 C. Barrett Austral. Wild Flower Bk. 39 Vandalism mutilates, if it does not destroy, hundreds of Christmas trees in the bush near Sydney: people carry home in their cars whole branches for home decoration. 1966 Times 11 Nov. (W. Austral. Suppl.) p. iv/2 The hot gold cascade of nuytsia floribunda the parasitic Christmas tree. 2011 @MarcLisa_Trivia 1 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 30 July 2019) The Australian Christmas tree can flower during the hot, dry southern Christmas because it taps in to nearby plant roots. b. New Zealand. The pohutukawa tree, Metrosideros excelsa, which in December and January bears clusters of flowers with inconspicuous petals and long bright red stamens. Also with distinguishing word or words. ΚΠ 1857 New-Zealander 30 Dec. The sides were tastefully decorated with flags, branches, and flowers of the scarlet Pohutukawa, or ‘Christmas tree’. 1890 J. C. Firth Nation Making ii. 15 Sitting one evening about Christmas under the shadow of a Pohutakawa (the Christmas tree) laden at this season, with masses of splendid crimson flowers. 1944 W. R. B. Oliver in Korero (N.Z.) (AEWS Background Bull.) 11 Sept. 13 The glory of the Auckland coast, at least in mid-summer, is the pohutukawa or Christmas tree. 2002 Y. Baskin Plague of Rats & Rubbervines xii. 286 Red-crowned parakeets..hopped ahead of us on the trail under a dense canopy of tree ferns and an immense, gnarled New Zealand Christmas tree. 3. a. An object, ornament, pattern, design, etc., resembling a Christmas tree (sense 1a) in shape or appearance; a representation of a Christmas tree. ΚΠ 1865 Sharpe's London Mag. Dec. 325/1 She screwed her yarn-winder on to the edge of the table, thus making a Christmas-tree. 1954 N.Y. Times 11 Dec. 20/1 The façade..is blanketed in strings of lights that form a Christmas tree. 1974 Colonnade (Milledgeville, Georgia) 1 Nov. 11/1 Cup is planning to make a Christmas tree out of pop cans (coke, sprite, Dr. Pepper, Grape) you name it they want it. 2010 S. C. Love Dress in Window xi. 78 I cut a Christmas tree out of green tissue paper, pasted it on the green glass holder and topped it with a yellow star. b. Any of various devices or mechanical structures thought to resemble a Christmas tree in some way (e.g. in appearance or through the presence of coloured lights); esp. (in oil or gas drilling) a typically cruciform assembly of valves, spools, gauges, and chokes, fitted to a wellhead and used to regulate the flow of oil or gas. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > with specific shape sword1530 spider1860 arm1881 bell1881 Christmas tree1917 1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 12 The movable mounting for the observer's gun in the rear cockpit was a weird contraption like a giant catapult... We called it the Christmas Tree, the Heath Robinson, the Jabberwock, [etc.]. 1930 W. H. Osgood Increasing Recov. Petroleum II. xvii. 711 Various types of packed casing heads are used in the casing-head or Christmas tree assembly on gas-lift wells. 1948 Amer. Speech 23 37 Christmas Tree. This electric indicator board resembles the object from which its name is derived only because the lights on it are red and green. The function of the Christmas tree is to give proper notification that all the necessary valves and hatches are closed when a submarine dives. 2014 H. Fang & M. Duan Offshore Operation Facilities ii. 272 Christmas trees used in offshore oil and gas fields include overwater Christmas trees and subsea Christmas trees. 4. Frequently with capital initials. A communal Christmas party; esp. one for (underprivileged) children, organized by a school, charitable organization, etc.Found in several varieties of English, but uncommon in British usage.Attested earlier in Christmas Tree Party in the same sense (see quot. 1856). ΚΠ 1856 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 12 Jan. I was at a Christmas Tree Party.., and the names of the children were called one after another, and all got something.] 1870 Delphi (Indiana) Jrnl. 9 Feb. Rev. J. R. Berry and family..were absent from home attending a Christmas Tree at the church. 1940 Winnipeg Free Press 29 Nov. 13/4 The Ladies' auxiliary to the 11th Medium battery, R.C.A., is planning to hold a Christmas tree when members will entertain the children of men serving in the battery. 1991 Iscor Managem. Ladies Club Newslet. in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) 1 This year we are planning a Christmas Tree for the children of Black Iscor employees. 2011 Warwick (Queensland) Daily News (Nexis) 29 Nov. 10 The 87th Christmas Tree will be held on December 17 this year. Thousands of presents have been purchased for local children. Compounds C1. As a modifier. a. With the sense ‘of or relating to a Christmas tree or Christmas trees; characteristic or reminiscent of (the shape of) a Christmas tree’. ΚΠ 1842 Boston Investigator 16 Mar. The understanding of boys and girls grows out of Christmas-tree delusion, finding out the real object and givers of the mysterious presents. 1888 Scotsman 31 Dec. 1/6 (advt.) Shrubs of the Christmas tree pattern. 1966 Financial Times 15 Dec. 2/5 Commercial Christmas tree growing tends to be confined more to the south and west of England nowadays. 1990 National Gardening Mar. 8/1 Here in southern California, most of the trees you see in the Christmas tree lots are Douglas and Noble firs. 2017 Brisbane News (Nexis) 13 Dec. 24 The shape of this tree is conical, the traditional Christmas tree shape. b. With the sense ‘used to decorate a Christmas tree’, as in Christmas tree bauble, Christmas tree decoration, Christmas tree lights, etc. ΚΠ 1851 Morning Advertiser 25 Nov. 1/4 (advt.) A splendid Assortment of Twelfth Cake and Christmas Tree Ornaments. 1915 Chamberlin's May 22 Christmas tree baubles of tinsel and glass may be hard to find. 1989 C. Dickinson Widows' Adventures Prol. 9 I unplugged the Christmas tree lights and when they were off I felt better. 2018 Knutsford Guardian (Nexis) 20 Dec. (heading) Children made a spectacle of themselves with their novel Christmas tree decorations. C2. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘that has a Christmas tree ——’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as in Christmas tree-patterned, Christmas tree-shaped. ΚΠ 1923 Youth's Compan. 23 (index) Christmas Tree-shaped Verse, 778. 1964 N.Y. Times 17 Dec. 26/5 (advt.) Our Christmas tree patterned tie designed expressly for us. 2018 Morden Times (Nexis) 20 Dec. a6 I'm standing at the kitchen counter, pushing a Christmas tree-shaped cookie cutter into a sticky layer of sugar cookie dough. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1826
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