thanksgivings
- 1Plural of thanksgiving.
The congregation offered thanksgivings for the safe return of the fishermen.
Ancient farming communities marked the changing seasons with feasts and thanksgivings.
Note
A plural that only the countable uses can take. Gratitude in the abstract has no plural, so the form counts separate acts: individual expressions of thanks, prayers said at meals, or public celebrations of divine favor. Written lowercase, it stays with these common-noun senses. The Canadian and American holiday is a capitalized name, Thanksgiving, and is not what a congregation offering thanksgivings means.
thanksgivings is a form of thanksgiving
thanksgiving, noun: The expression of gratitude, or a particular act of giving thanks. Full entry
- Forms
- thanksgivingthanksgivings plural
- Spelling
- thanksgiving → thanksgivings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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