holiday tune

Festive December melody

A holiday tune is a song associated with a particular holiday, especially Christmas.

The phrase evokes familiar seasonal music played in stores, at parties, and on the radio: The mall was already blasting holiday tunes in early November.

Holiday tune often implies cheerful, well-worn songs that return annually.

Related

Christmas · White Christmas · melody · sleigh · bells · snow · cheer · sing · sing along · merry · deck the halls · winter · radio · classic · old fashioned · nostalgia · cozy · fireplace

Opposites
seasonal specificity

holiday tunesummer anthem

Warm months' defining track

deep cut · album track

mood/affect

holiday tunefuneral march

Music accompanying a coffin

dirge · requiem · funeral dirge · lament · elegy

cultural function

holiday tunemourning song

Music expressing grief

dirge · elegy · sea shanty · fight song

Family

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Familiarity
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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G