Definitions for gift

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gift gift

Spelling: [gift]

IPA: /gɪft/

Gift is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in gift (fgit).

Definitions for gift

noun

1. something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone, honor an occasion, or make a gesture of assistance; present.
2. the act of giving.
3. something bestowed or acquired without any particular effort by the recipient or without its being earned:
4. a special ability or capacity; natural endowment; talent:
5. gamete intrafallopian transfer: a laparoscopic process in which eggs are retrieved from an ovary by aspiration and inserted, along with sperm, into the fallopian tube of another woman.

verb (used with object)

1. to present with as a gift; bestow gifts upon; endow with.
2. to present (someone) with a gift:

Origin of gift

1125-75; Middle English Old Norse gift; cognate with Old English gift (Middle English yift) marriage gift; akin to give

Examples for gift

If a chap's not born with the gift he's an ass to think he can acquire it.

Both Prados have enough magic that, after you visit them, the whole world feels like their gift shop for a few hours.

Thank you, Robert; I will accept your gift with thanks on one condition.

Two puppies were carried in a basket, one of which the Princess accepted as a gift.

Then the gift card is shopped online in a gray market to collect cold currency.

While the chicken today might be the least exotic bird one can think of, it was once a gift that wowed kings.

The kids had a gift for him too, a tee shirt with ‘Baseball Spoken Here’ stenciled across the front.

Grace's face was alight with appreciation of Mrs. Gray's gift.

He can't acquire the gift, and no more can a chap acquire this gift.

A Christmas Carol revived and reinvented it around the gift of giving.