thanksgiving Definition
thanks·giv·ing (t̸haŋks′giv′iŋ)
noun
- the act of giving thanks
- an expression of this; esp., a formal, often public, expression of thanks to God in the form of a prayer, etc.
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- an annual U.S. holiday observed on the fourth Thursday of November as a day of giving thanks and feasting: it commemorates the Pilgrims' celebration of the good harvest of 1621
- a similar Canadian holiday on the second Monday of October
Thanksgiving Synonyms
Thanksgiving
n.
thanksgiving Usage Examples
Converse of object
offer: The very first thing that Noah does is offer a thanksgiving to the Lord - his first act is one of prayer.
Preposition: for
- birth: How many services of thanksgiving for the birth of a child have there been in the last five years?
- life: I took a service of thanksgiving for the life of a young man.
- gift: For Pentecost, organize a service of thanksgiving for the gifts of creation, not forgetting their proper use.
- deliverance: The service of thanksgiving for deliverance from the Gunpowder Plot remained in the Prayer Book for 254 years.
- year: Part of the thanksgiving for the 75 years of worship and witness at Starbeck Methodist Church.
- work: Bishop Declan will be celebrating a Mass of thanksgiving for the work of all those who are involved in the work of Catholic Education.
Adjective modifier
- public: The third is being able to give public thanksgiving together through Jesus to His Father in the Holy Spirit.
- much: My mentioning our sister's release occasioned much thanksgiving to God.
- joyful: Please join us to share in this service of hope and joyful thanksgiving for the resurrection of Jesus after the despair of the Cross.
- general: Parliament was so glad of the fall of Pendennis that they made September 22 a day of general thanksgiving.
- great: I have great respect for at least one man who holds that view, and I think of him with great thanksgiving.
Modifies a noun
- drehobl: The range the it didn't last long crowdaround thanksgiving drehobl on the aim.
- prayer: Often a tree or group of trees would be chosen to become a place of worship or of thanksgiving prayers to ancestors.
- service: The thanksgiving service will start at 11am on Sunday 2 July.
- day: And then I tell you we'd have a thanksgiving day and Christmas tree combined.
- offering: The thanksgiving psalms seem to have been used in public worship, often in conjunction with a thanksgiving offering.
- mass: THANKSGIVING MASS for the Holy Father Sunday October 26 th, 6 p.m. at St. Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham.
Noun used with modifier
- crowdaround: The range the it didn't last long crowdaround thanksgiving drehobl on the aim.
- harvest: This is harvest thanksgiving, thanking God for the favorable conditions which have enabled the farmers to secure a good yield.
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