nativity

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Birth, especially the place, conditions, or circumstances of being born.
2. n. The birth of Jesus.
3. n. A representation, such as a painting, of Jesus just after birth.
4. n. Christmas.
5. n. A horoscope for the time of one's birth.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The fact of being born; birth.
2. n. The circumstances attending birth, as time, place, and surroundings.
3. n. In particular, the birth of Christ; hence.
4. n. the festival commemorating the birth of Christ; Christmas.
5. n. a picture representing the birth of Christ: as, the Nativity of Perugino in the hall of the Cam bio at Perugia.
6. n. In feudal times, the condition of servitude or villeinage. See native, n., 2.
7. n. In astrology, a scheme or figure of the heavens, particularly of the twelve houses, at the moment when a person was born; a horoscope.

Wiktionary

1. n. Birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth.
2. n. religion The birth of Jesus Christ (the Nativity).
3. n. astrology A horoscope associated with a person's birth.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc.
2. n. (Fine Arts) A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born.
3. n. (Astrol.) A representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies as the moment of one's birth, supposed to indicate one's future destinies; a horoscope.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the event of being born
2. n. the theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father; Christians believe that Jesus's birth fulfilled Old Testament prophecies and was attended by miracles; the Nativity is celebrated at Christmas