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thanksgiving en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌθeɪ̯ŋksˈɡɪv.ɪŋ/ (Canada, US)
• /ˈθæŋksˌɡɪv.ɪŋ/ without æ-raising
• (US) audio
• /ˈθɛ̃ŋksˌɡɪv.ɪŋ/ (Canada, US)
• /ˌθæŋksˈɡɪv.ɪŋ/ without æ-raising

Etymology

From thanks + giving.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The expression of gratitude.
   • Now the happy king laid the forehead of thankſgiving upon the duſt of gratitude; he opened the doors of his wealth to the four winds, and enriched the world, at once, with his munificence. 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 3:
   • The waters grew suddenly lighter, and my spirits rose accordingly. I shouted down to those below that I saw daylight ahead, and a great shout of thanksgiving reverberated through the ship. A moment later we emerged into sunlit water, and immediately I raised the periscope and looked about me upon the strangest landscape I had ever seen. 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
   • People gathered, she said, "not simply in an attitude of mourning, grievous as those events were, but rather in the spirit of thanksgiving that George and Harvey were among us, that they shared with us their dreams and aspirations for the San Francisco of the 1980s." 1979 December 8, Dianne Feinstein, quotee, “Services Honor Milk, Moscone”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 1:
2. (countable, uncountable) A short prayer said at meals; grace, a benediction.
3. (countable, uncountable) A public celebration in acknowledgement of divine favour.
   • Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli. 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

Thanksgiving

Relateds

thanksgiver

Translations (26)

pl podziękowanie (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · cmn 感恩 (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · es acción de gracias (short prayer said at meals) · hu hálaadás (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · grc εὐχαριστία (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · fr grâces (short prayer said at meals) · de Danksagung (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · pl dziękczynienie (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · gl acción de grazas (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · ru благода́рственный моле́бен (short prayer said at meals) · bg благодарствена молитва (short prayer said at meals) · es acción de gracias (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · he הֹודָיָה (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · bg благодарение (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · ru благода́рственная моли́тва (short prayer said at meals) · fr remerciement (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · fr bénédicité (short prayer said at meals) · ru благодаре́ние (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · kix thēumêi kìuh (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · got 𐌰𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸 (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · he תֹּודָה (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · nl dankzegging (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude) · got 𐌰𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸 (short prayer said at meals) · ru моле́бен (short prayer said at meals) · hu asztali ima/áldás (short prayer said at meals) · bg благодарност (expression of gratitude — see also gratitude)