Thank
[θæŋk]
Definition
(n.) A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural.
(n.) To express gratitude to (anyone) for a favor; to make acknowledgments to (anyone) for kindness bestowed; -- used also ironically for blame.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Return thanks to, make acknowledgments to.
Editor: Lora
Definition
v.t. to express gratitude for a favour.—n. (usually in pl.) expression of gratitude for favour received often elliptically=My thanks to you.—adj. Thank′ful full of thanks: grateful.—adv. Thank′fully.—n. Thank′fulness.—adj. Thank′less unthankful: not expressing thanks or favours: not gaining thanks.—adv. Thank′lessly in a thankless manner: unthankfully.—ns. Thank′lessness the state of being thankless: ingratitude; Thank′-off′ering an offering made to express thanks for mercies received; Thanks′giver one who gives thanks or acknowledges a favour; Thanks′giving act of giving thanks: a public acknowledgment of divine goodness and mercy: a day set apart for this esp. that in the United States on the last Thursday of November: a form of giving thanks a grace that form preceding the last two prayers of morning or evening prayer or of the litany—the General Thanksgiving; Thank′worthiness the state of being thankworthy.—adj. Thank′worthy worthy of or deserving thanks.—n. Thank′-you-ma'am a ridge or hollow across a road—from the sudden bobbing of the head of a person in a vehicle crossing it.
Checker: Mara
Examples
- Thank you, sir; I can do it for myself. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- We thank you many times. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I thank you for your ingenious paper in favour of the trees. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There it goes, and there is an end, thank Heaven! Jane Austen. Emma.
- I thank you for the question. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I thank you for restraining me just now. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Thank you for coming, said Lydgate, cordially. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He thanked me, saluted and went off. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He thanked me and ran to his mother's again--and back again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We should have liked so much to have seen and thanked our host. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I glanced at my companion, and finding that he had already risen and was ready to depart, thanked them for what they had told me, and took my leave. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I thanked him, and at his direction joined the members of his staff. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Gurth thanked the Captain for his courtesy, and promised to attend to his recommendation. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Rawdon thanked his sister a hundred times, and with an ardour of gratitude which touched and almost alarmed that soft-hearted woman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My resolution of thanking you for your kindness to Lydia had certainly great effect. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The old lady is thanking him for his attention when she observes the comrades in waiting. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Elizabeth took an opportunity of thanking her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- If you give those names to my thanking you for your proposal and declining it, is it my fault, Mr Headstone? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- To devote my life to his happiness was to thank him poorly, and what had I wished for the other night but some new means of thanking him? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And he took it from her with a sort of quiet authority, to which she submitted passively, neither resisting him nor thanking him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Oh, never mind thanking. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Haste--begone--stay not to render thanks! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I've saved you some thousands of dollars, at different times, by taking care of your hands,--that's all the thanks I get. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- As I could not understand or speak a word of French, I went to see our minister, Mr. Whitelaw Reid, and got him to send a deputy to answer for me, which he did, with my grateful thanks. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Allow me to present the club key, and with many thanks for your favor, take my seat. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A thousand thanks,' he then observed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The vote of thanks was carried unanimously. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Thanks to you, we know when the paint was dry. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Edited by Horace