Definitions for thanks

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Spelling: [thangk]

IPA: /θæŋk/

Thanks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in thanks (ahknst).

Definitions for thanks

noun

1. Usually, thanks. a grateful feeling or acknowledgment of a benefit, favor, or the like, expressed by words or otherwise:
2. Usually, thanks. a grateful feeling or acknowledgment of a benefit, favor, or the like, expressed by words or otherwise:

Idioms

1. have oneself to thank, to be personally to blame; have the responsibility:
2. no thanks to, (used to express annoyance) not owing to:
3. thank God, (used as an interjection to express relief, thankfulness, etc.) Also, thank goodness, thank heaven.
4. thanks to, (used to express gratitude or blame) because of; owing to:
5. thank you, (used as an interjection to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment, as for a gift, favor, service, or courtesy).
6. have oneself to thank, to be personally to blame; have the responsibility:
7. no thanks to, (used to express annoyance) not owing to:
8. thank God, (used as an interjection to express relief, thankfulness, etc.) Also, thank goodness, thank heaven.
9. thanks to, (used to express gratitude or blame) because of; owing to:
10. thank you, (used as an interjection to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment, as for a gift, favor, service, or courtesy).

interjection

1. thanks, (used as an informal expression of gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment).
2. thanks, (used as an informal expression of gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment).

verb (used with object)

1. to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to:
2. to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to:

Origin of thanks

before 900; (noun) Middle English: favorable thought, goodwill, gratitude, (in singular and plural) expression of thanks; Old English thanc (in singular) expression of thanks, orig., thought,

Examples for thanks

But if I were to be contumacious, I might thank myself for all that would follow.

“I want to thank support from the Vatican, especially Pope Francis,” he said in a televised statement.

Heinold's First and Last Chance, Oakland (Jack London, Taft) You can thank Johnny Heinold for your favorite Jack London book.

However you decide to vote in the end, I thank those who continue to give us leverage to improve the bill.

thank you for the compliment, but I don't expect to stick to it all my life.

I am bound for my quarters, I came but to thank you for your goodness to me, and to bid you farewell.

Nevertheless, I have many things to thank him for, and therefore he deserves praise.

Then the sun went down and the anger came back as a “thank You NYPD” rally traded insults with counter-protestors.

Enforcement of U.S Code, Title VII, Chapter 25A “Export Standards for Grapes and Plums” remains fully funded, thank goodness.

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

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

They were as yet quite ignorant but thanks to a happy Fate they were curious.

Her heart ascended on a wave of thanks to the giver of song.

And, thanks to a transparent hull, exploring the deep and spotting rare marine life is practically a cinch.

thanks to the Atlanta case, they can now see another in plain sight.

“They basically said thanks a lot and shook our hands and took off,” Stammberger said.

thanks to that meddling Franklin and the other editors, Jefferson thought his Declaration had been “mangled.”

All have done their duty well, and to them also I desire to render my thanks.

She says very little in the way of thanks, except to the Giver of all good.

thanks to decades of social-science research, we know more about how to help struggling Americans than ever before.