Thanksgiving

[,θæŋks'ɡɪvɪŋ]

Definition

(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.

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Definition

(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.

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