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thank
[ thangk ]
verb (used with object)
- to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to:
She thanked them for their hospitality.
noun
- Usually thanks. a grateful feeling or acknowledgment of a benefit, favor, or the like, expressed by words or otherwise:
to return a borrowed book with thanks.
interjection
- thanks, (used as an informal expression of gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment).
thank
/ θæŋ /
verb
- to convey feelings of gratitude to
- to hold responsible
he has his creditors to thank for his bankruptcy
- used in exclamations of relief
thank God
thank goodness
- I'll thank you toused ironically to intensify a command, request, etc
I'll thank you to mind your own business
Other Word Forms
- ٳİ noun
- ·ٳ verb (used with object)
- ܲ·ٳ adjective
- ܲ·ٳiԲ adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of thank1
Idioms and Phrases
- have oneself to thank, to be personally to blame; have the responsibility:
The citizens have only themselves to thank for corruption in government.
- no thanks to, (used to express annoyance) not owing to:
I caught my flight after all, no thanks to you.
- thank God, (used as an interjection to express relief, thankfulness, etc.) Also thank goodness, thank heaven.
- thank you, (used as an interjection to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment, as for a gift, favor, service, or courtesy).
- thanks to, (used to express gratitude or blame) because of; owing to:
Thanks to good organization and hard work, the benefit concert was a great success.
The case went poorly thanks to the lawyer's incompetence.
More idioms and phrases containing thank
- give thanks for small blessings
Example Sentences
The amount of cannabis posted to the UK from Thailand has dropped by 90% in three months thanks to cooperation with Thai Customs, the Home Office has said.
He notes he was thanked, in Disney’s peculiar way, once in his career, and that’s when he was working on the Disneyland Monorail, which debuted in the park in 1959.
Coming to the Crucible is always special, but it became even more so for one fan as he pocketed £25,000 thanks to Allen's maximum.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
And yet, thanks to the past century's developments in cognitive science and now artificial intelligence, we have entrenched a view of the brain that doesn't spend much time on this dynamic.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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