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Are the terms Xmas and Christmas the same?

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Yes, Xmas is another way of writing Christmas.

The use of Xmas goes back centuries. X has been used in religious writings as a shorthand or abbreviation, where X represents chi in the Greek alphabet. Chi is the first letter in the Greek spelling of the word Christ.
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