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thanks·giv·ing day

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Daynoun

    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

Wiktionary

  1. Thanksgiving Daynoun

    A holiday, originally to give thanks to God for the harvest, celebrated annually on the second Monday of October.

  2. Thanksgiving Daynoun

    A holiday, originally to give thanks to God and to commemorate the feast held by the Pilgrim colonists, celebrated annually on the fourth Thursday of November.

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  1. thanksgiving day

    Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States, Canada, and other countries, celebrated as a day of giving thanks for the blessings of the harvest and of the preceding year. Traditionally, it involves a meal with family and friends that often includes turkey, stuffing, potatoes, and pie. It's observed on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of thanksgiving day in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of thanksgiving day in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of thanksgiving day in a Sentence

  1. H. L. Mencken:

    Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

  2. Bill Nichols:

    Last year and now again this year the executives of JCPenney( JCP) have decided that being open on Thanksgiving Day is more important than the family lives of their thousands of employees.

  3. Mark Mathews:

    There is definitely a big trend here for more people to be shopping on Thanksgiving Day.

  4. Unknown:

    On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.

  5. Michael Osterholm:

    I worry that the Thanksgiving Day surge will then just add into what will become the Christmas surge, which will then make this one seem as if it wasn't so bad.


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