THANKSGIVING

grace, blessing, thanksgiving

(noun) a short prayer of thanks before a meal; “their youngest son said grace”

Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

(noun) fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Proper noun

Thanksgiving

(Canada, US) Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada, and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States.

(Canada, US) The long weekend which includes Thanksgiving Day; Thanksgiving weekend.

An analogous celebration in other cultures, especially a harvest festival.

Etymology

Noun

thanksgiving (countable and uncountable, plural thanksgivings)

an expression of gratitude.

a short prayer said at meals; grace, a benediction.

A public celebration in acknowledgement of divine favour.

Source: Wiktionary

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Thanks"giv`ing, n.

1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving still. Keble.

2. A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties.

Note: In the United States it is now customary for the President by proclamation to appoint annually a day (usually the last Thursday in November) of thanksgiving and praise to God for the mercies of the past year. This is an extension of the custom long prevailing in several States in which an annual Thanksgiving day has been appointed by proclamation of the governor.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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