thanksgiving

/θæŋksˈɡɪvɪŋ/

thanksgiving means thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada, and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 66 out of 100.

thanksgiving is pronounced /θæŋksˈɡɪvɪŋ/.

Etymology

A proprialization from the common noun thanksgiving; by surface analysis, thanks + giving.

name

Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada, and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States.“It is at present impossible to determine when the General Court will adjourn, none of the great business having as yet been attended to, so as to be completed, but there seems to be a general determination to be at home at Thanksgiving. I hope it will be possible.”
The long weekend which includes Thanksgiving Day; Thanksgiving weekend.
An analogous celebration in other cultures, especially a harvest festival.“Thus Sukkot became the Jewish Thanksgiving.”

noun

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