thanksgiving

See also: Thanksgiving

English

Etymology

thanks +‎ giving

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌθæŋksˈɡɪv.ɪŋ/, /ˈθæŋksˌɡɪv.ɪŋ/

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Noun

thanksgiving (countable and uncountable, plural thanksgivings)

1. An expression of gratitude.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 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, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

     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.

2. A short prayer said at meals; grace, a benediction.
3. A public celebration in acknowledgement of divine favour.
   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict‎^[1]:

     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.

Related terms

• thanksgiver

 

Translations

expression of gratitude — see also gratitude

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 感恩 (zh) (gǎn'ēn)

• Dutch: dankzegging (nl) f
• French: remerciement (fr) m
• Galician: acción de grazas
• German: Danksagung f
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸 n (awiliuþ)
• Greek:

  Ancient: εὐχαριστία f (eukharistía)

• Hebrew: הֹודָיָה f (hodayá), תֹּודָה (he) f (todá) (biblical)
• Hungarian: hálaadás (hu)
• Polish: dziękczynienie (pl) n
• Russian: благодаре́ние (ru) n (blagodarénije)
• Spanish: acción de gracias f

short prayer said at meals

• Bulgarian: благодарствена молитва (blagodarstvena molitva)
• French: grâces (fr), bénédicité (fr)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸 n (awiliuþ)
• Hungarian: asztali ima/áldás
• Russian: благода́рственный моле́бен m (blagodárstvennyj molében), моле́бен (ru) m (molében), благода́рственная моли́тва f (blagodárstvennaja molítva)
• Spanish: acción de gracias

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Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: הודיה f (hodiah)