Noun

(es)

(informal)

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, year = c. 1100 , title = Two of parallel , year_published = 1892 , editor = Earle, John , publisher = Clarendon , location = Oxford , page = 235 , url = http://www.archive.org/stream/twosaxonchronic02earlgoog , passage = 1100. On þison geare se cyng Willelm heold his hired to ?p?es mæssa on Gleaweceastre. to Eastron on Winceastre. ? to Pentecosten on Westmynstre. , transliteration = 1100. In this year the King William held his court at Xmas in Glocester, and at Easter in Winchester, and at Pentecost in Westminster. }}

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, year = c. 1755 , author = Bernard Ward , title = History of St. Edmund's college, Old Hall , page = 303 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=kMpBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA303 , passage = In ye Xmas and Whitsuntide Vacations, ye Scholars study at a rate of an hour and a Quarter each day & all yt go home have proportionable Tasks set them... }}

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, date = 1801-12-31 , first = Samuel , last = Coleridge , authorlink = Samuel Coleridge , contribution = letter to R. Southey , year_published = 1894 , month_published = January , title = Ten Letters from Coleridge to Southey , magazine = The Atlantic Monthly , volume = 73 , issue = 435 , page = 66 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=12oAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA66 , passage = On Xmas Day I breakfasted with Davy, with the intention of dining with you... }}

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, date = 1811-09-09 , first = George Gordon , last = Byron , authorlink = Lord Byron , chapter = To the Hon. Augusta Leigh , title = The Works of Lord Byron , volume = 9 , year_published = 1898 , publisher = John Murray , location = London , editor = Prothero, Rowland E. , page = 31 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=QmERAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA31&dq=Xmas , passage = }}

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, date = 1861-06-23 , first = Charles , last = Dickens , authorlink = Charles Dickens , contribution = letter to Wilkie Collins , year_published = 1892 , title = Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins , editor = Hutton, Laurence , publisher = Harper & Brothers , location = New York , page = 100 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=CXtaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA100 , passage = My dear Wilkie,—we will arrange our Xmas No., please God, under the shade of the Oak Trees. }}

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, date = 1864-06-10 , first = Lewis , last = Carroll , authorlink = Lewis Caroll , title = The Letters of Lewis Carroll , volume = 1 , editor = Cohen, Morton N. , publisher = Macmillan , location = London , year_published = 1979 , page = 65 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=9IwrAQAAIAAJ , passage = I should be very glad if you could help me in fixing on a name for my fairy-tale, which Mr. Tenniel (in consequence of your kind introduction) is now illustrating for me, and which I hope to get published before Xmas . }}

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, date = 1879-11-13 , title = Our London Letter , author = W. F. C. , magazine = The American Stationer , volume = 7 , issue = 46 , page = 2 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=O2JYAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA82&dq=Xmas , passage = A Xmas' card is a pleasant memento of a season of good will and kindly sentiment. It is a reminiscence of '''Xmas''' time. With '''Xmas''' we associate happy gatherings of friends, wintry skies without and cheerful hearths within, ice and snow to be kept in subjugation by warmth of disposition and genial affection. The ' Xmas cards ought to embody such traits, physical and mental. }}

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, date = 1885-12-10 , title = Our Xmas at Windsor , magazine = , volume = 6 , issue = 154 , first = Carlyle , last = Smith , location = New York , page = 338 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=pZJGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA338&dq=Xmas , passage = }}

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, year = 1897 , month = December , magazine = The American Monthly Illustrated Review of Reviews , title = A Xmas gift for one dollar [advertisement] , author = Standard American Publishing Co. , volume = 16 , issue = 95 , page = 49 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=EtYeQue3_UsC&pg=RA1-PA49&dq=Xmas }}

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, date = 1913-11-18 , first = C. S. , last = Lewis , authorlink = C. S. Lewis , title = The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Family Letters, 1905-1931 , editor = Hooper, Walter , publisher = HarperCollins , location = New York , year_published = 2004 , isbn = 9780060727635 , page = 41 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=eOxfuF6BQ0gC&pg=PA41&dq=Xmas , passage = Don't let us spoil the Xmas holidays by a chore as colossal as it is disagreeable, and as disagreeable as it is unnecessary. }}

Noun

(en-noun)

(musical instruments) A keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings.

The piano in his house takes up a lot of space.

She has been taking lessons for many years and now plays piano very well.

He can play "Happy Birthday" on the piano .

Most of the works by Frédéric Chopin are for the piano .