thanksgiving

[Thanks·giv`ing]

Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada, traditionally observed through a meal featuring a roasted turkey and other traditional foods.

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The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.

Noun
a short prayer of thanks before a meal

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

n.
The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.

n.
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.

Thanksgiving

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.

In the thanksgiving before meat.

And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving still.

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. &hand; 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.

The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.

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Usage Examples

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

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Other Usage Examples

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.