HOW TO PRONOUNCE
yule
/jul/
Press play to hear how to pronounce yule.
American Pronunciation Guide · 0:47
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does yule mean?
proper noun
- Christmastide, the Christmas season, the Twelve Days of Christmas (between December 25ᵗʰ and January 5ᵗʰ).
- A pagan wintertime holiday celebrated by Germanic peoples, particularly the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples, or a modern reconstruction of this holiday celebrated by neo-pagans.
- A surname.
More meanings (2)
noun
- (rare) Alternative letter-case form of Yule.
interjection
- (obsolete) A proclamation of joy at Christmas.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/jul/
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
To dream of a yule log, foretells that your joyous anticipations will be realized by your attendance at great festivities.
Why did the Druids at Yule Tide light roaring fires?
More book examples (3)
When Yule was, they locked the house door behind them and went their ways home to the Tofts; and now of all of these wayfarers was Christopher by far the hardest and strongest, for his side had utterly forgotten Simon's knife.
A family living in Burmah (Shive-Maon, whose history is told by Crawford and Yule), consisting of a father, a daughter, and a granddaughter, were nearly covered with hair.
The similarity observed in the sacred festivals and religious seasons of the ancient inhabitants of Ireland and those of the early Christians, the extent to which large stone crosses, lighted candles, the yule log and the various other symbols belonging to fertility, or sun worship, were retained by Christianity, furnish strong evidence of the fact that the latter system is but part and parcel of the former.