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Definition: Thanksgiving |
ThanksgivingNoun1. Fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians. 2. A short prayer of thanks before a meal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Thanksgiving" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in North America, generally observed as an expression of gratitude. The most common view of its origin is that it was to give thanks to God for the bounty of the autumn harvest. In the United States, the holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. In Canada, where the harvest generally ends earlier in the year, the holiday is celebrated on the second Monday in October, which is observed as Columbus Day in the United States.
Traditional Celebration
Thanksgiving is traditionally celebrated with a feast shared amongst family and friends. In the United States, it is an important family holiday, and people often travel across the country to be with family members for the holiday. The Thanksgiving holiday is generally a "four-day" weekend in the United States, in which Americans are giving the relevant Thursday and Friday off. Thanksgiving is almost entirely celebrated at home, unlike the Fourth of July or Christmas, which are associated with a variety of shared public experiences (fireworks, caroling, etc.) In Canada Thanksgiving is only a three day holiday and the holiday is not as important as in the US. Because of the shortened break there is far less travel on the Canadian Thanksgiving and it is far harder for families to come together. In part because of this, Christmas is far more family oriented in Canada than it is in the United States.Since at least the 1930s, the Christmas shopping season technically begins when Thanksgiving ends. In New York City, the Macy's (department store) Thanksgiving Day Parade is held annually every Thanksgiving Day in Midtown Manhattan. The parade features moving stands with specific themes, scenes from Broadway plays, large balloons of cartoon characters and TV personalities, and high school marching bands. It always ends with the image of Santa Claus passing the reviewing stand. While the biggest day of shopping of the year in the U.S. is still the Black Friday after Thanksgiving, most shops start to stock for and promote the holidays immediately after Halloween, and sometimes even before.
U.S. tradition associates the holiday with a meal held in 1621 by the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Some of the details of the American Thanksgiving story are myths that developed in the 1890s and early 1900s as part of the effort to forge a common national identity in the aftermath of the Civil War and in the melting pot of new immigrants.
The history of Thanksgiving in North America
Thanksgiving is closely related to harvest festivals that had long been a traditional holiday in much of Europe. The first time one of these festivals was celebrated in North American was by the Frobisher Expedition in 1578. Another event claiming to be the first Thanksgiving occurred on December 4, 1619 when 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembarked in Virginia and gave thanks to God.Most people recognize the first Thanksgiving as taking place in December 1621, when the Pilgrims held a three-day feast to celebrate the bountiful harvest they reaped following their first winter in North America.
Two American colonists have personal accounts of the 1621 Thanksgiving in Massachusetts:
William Bradford, in Of Plymouth Plantation:
Edward Winslow, in Mourt's Relation:
- They began now to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fit up their house and dwelling against winter, being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty. For as some were thus employed in affairs abroad, others were exercised in fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every family had their portion. All the summer there was no want; and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when they came first (but afterward decreased by degrees). And besides waterfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc. Besides, they had about a peck of meal a week to a person, or now since harvest, Indian corn to that proportion. Which made many afterwards write so largely of their plenty here to their friends in England, which were not feigned by true reports.
The Pilgrims did not hold Thanksgiving again until 1623, when it followed a drought, prayers for rain and a subsequent rain shower. At the 1623 Thanksgiving, a number of tribes were invited and offered food and drink. Two hundred Indians died from an unknown poison. [1]
- Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruits of our labor. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which we brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.
The first formally declared day of thanksgiving apparently took place in 1637 during a war between colonists and the Pequot tribe. Dutch and English mercenaries attacked a Pequot stronghold in what is now Groton, Connecticut, where the Pequots were gathered for an annual green corn dance, killing about 500, including women and children. The feast to celebrate the victory the following day by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was declared by the governor as a day of thanksgiving.
Irregular Thanksgivings continued after favorable events and days of fasting after unfavorable ones. Gradually an annual Thanksgiving after the harvest developed in the mid-1600s. This did not occur on any set day or necessarily on the same day in different colonies.
Some claim that the favorable events for celebrating Thanksgivings during the 1600s were similar killings of Native Americans, for example, that churches in Manhattan announced a day of “thanksgiving” to celebrate victory over the “heathen savages,” and that methods of celebration included the kicking of the severed heads of Pequot people through the streets like soccer balls. [1]
Some, including historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr, point out that the first time colonists from Europe gave thanks in what would become the United States was on December 4, 1619, in Berkeley, Virginia. That was when the thirty-eight members of The Berkeley Company landed there after a three-month voyage in the Margaret. Having been recruited from Gloucestershire to establish a colony in the New World, the men were under orders to give thanks when they arrived, so the first thing they did was to kneel down and do so.
Thanksgiving in the United States
George Washington, leader of the revolutionary forces in the American Revolutionary War, proclaimed a Thanksgiving in December 1777 as a victory celebration honoring the defeat of the British at Saratoga.
The Continental Congress proclaimed annual December Thanksgivings from 1777 to 1783, except in 1782.
George Washington again proclaimed Thanksgivings, now as President, in 1789 and 1795. President John Adams declared Thanksgivings in 1798 and 1799, and President James Madison declared the holiday twice in 1815; however, none of these were celebrated in autumn.
It was President Abraham Lincoln that set the holiday as a regular yearly event for the final Thursday of November in 1863.
Some claim that during the 1800s, when popular art represented the thanksgiving tradition showed both pilgrims and Native Americans, it portrayed the event as a violent confrontation between the two groups, not as a harmonious, non-racial dinner. The modern portrayal of thanksgiving representing non-racial harmony, tolerance is attributed to a painting by Jennie Brownscombe in 1914, which was subsequently widely circulated in Life magazine. [1]
In 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared that Thanksgiving would be the penultimate Thursday of November rather than the last. This was to give merchants a longer period to sell goods before Christmas; at the time it was considered inappropriate to advertise goods for Christmas until after Thanksgiving. However, Roosevelt's declaration was not mandatory; some states went along with this recommendation and others did not.
The United States Congress in 1941 split the difference and established that the holiday would occur annually on the fourth Thursday of November, which was sometimes the last Thursday and sometimes the next to last. On November 26 that year President Roosevelt signed this bill into US law.
Thanksgiving in Canada
Canadians trace the holiday to a feast held by Martin Frobisher in Newfoundland in 1578. It is also probable that American loyalists who emigrated to Canada after American independence brought with them many of their Thanksgiving traditions.
The Thanksgiving celebration was held occasionally in English areas of British North America in the eighteenth century, especially in Nova Scotia. The holiday rose to much greater prominence with the arrival of the United Empire Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution. The holiday became entrenched in English Canadian society. In 1879 Canada's parliament declared Thanksgiving to be a national secular holiday. This date was moved several times, finally being set on its current date in 1957.
Thanksgiving Dinner
The centerpiece of the contemporary American Thanksgiving is a large dinner (a.k.a. supper), starring a large roasted turkey. Because turkey is the most common main dish of a Thanksgiving dinner, thanksgiving is sometimes called 'Turkey Day'. The USDA estimated that 269 million turkeys were raised in the country in 2003, the vast majority of which were headed for a Thanksgiving dinner plate.
Many other foods are served alongside the turkey, so many that, because of the amount of food, the Thanksgiving meal is generally served midday or early afternoon to make time for all the eating, and preparation may begin at the crack of dawn or days before.
Traditional Thanksgiving foods are sometimes specific to the day, and although some of the foods might be seen at any semi-formal meal in the United States, the meal often has something of ritualistic, traditionalistic quality.
Commonly served dishes include cranberry sauce, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans and stuffing. For dessert, various pies are served, particularly pumpkin pie, strawberry-rhubarb pie and pecan pie. Other dishes reflect the region or cultural background of those who have come together for the meal. For example, Italian-Americans often have lasagna on the table and Ashkenazi Jews may serve noodle kugel, a sweet pudding. Another good Thanksgiving dish is candied yams.
There are also regional differences as to the "stuffing" (or "dressing") traditionally served with the turkey. Southerners generally make theirs from cornbread, while in other parts of the country white bread is the base, to which oysters, apples, chestnuts, or the turkey's giblets may be added. These eating patterns are very similar in Canada.
A Day of Mourning?
Some people consider this holiday as an appropriate time to commemorate the genocide against Native Americans. Since 1970, people have gathered at Plymouth Rock to mark the "National Day of Mourning." Supporters of this movement argue that Thanksgiving "celebrates" crimes against humanity; in particular, against the Mashantucket Pequots (in 1637). Such groups have a similar view of Columbus Day.
Nicknames
In certain parts of the USA, the name for Thanksgiving can be shortened or changed. These nicknames include:
- Turkey Day (after the traditional Thanksgiving dinner)
- T-Day (abbreviation of either "Thanksgiving" or "Turkey")
- Macy's Day (exclusive to New York City, a reference to the parade, above)
See also
Cooking a turkey; One-Hour Thanksgiving Dinner
External links
- The Thanksgiving Story
- Guide for teacher regarding Thanksgiving and Native American Culture
- Thanksgiving images
- All Recipes-Thanksgiving Recipes
- Butterball Turkey Holiday Guide
- EatTurkey.com: Thanksgiving and Holiday Cooking, from the National Turkey Federation
- Epicurious Eating Thanksgiving Homepage
- Food Network Thanksgiving
- Martha Stewart Thanksgiving Planner
- Thanksgiving Traditions
- turkey tips from Metafilter
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thanksgiving."
Synonyms: ThanksgivingSynonyms: blessing (n), grace (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Holiday; gala day, red letter day, play day; high days and holidays; high holiday, Bank holiday; May day, Derby day; Saint Monday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday; Bairam; wayz-goos, bean feast; Arbor Day, Declaration Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day; Mardi gras,mi-careme, feria, fiesta. |
Gratitude | Acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, thanksgiving, giving thanks; thankful good will. |
Sociality | Birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve party, Thanksgiving Day Dinner; bonenkai; wedding reception. |
Worship | Thanksgiving; giving thanks, returning thanks; grace, praise, glorification, benediction, doxology, hosanna; hallelujah, allelujah; Te Deum, non nobis Domine, nunc dimittis; paean; benschen; Ave Maria, O Salutaris, Sanctus, The Annunciation, Tersanctus, Trisagion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Thanksgiving |
| English words defined with "Thanksgiving": advocate ♦ banquet ♦ feast ♦ Harvest-home ♦ pardon, prayer ♦ recommend ♦ supplication ♦ urge. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Thanksgiving": Lips ♦ Shipping holiday, succot, succoth, sukkos, sukkot ♦ Theudas ♦ virtual Friday. (references) |
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Screenplays | Have you noticed that you're the only practicing heterosexual at your Thanksgiving dinner (The Object of My Affection; writing credit: Wendy Wasserstein. Based on the novel by Stephen McCauley.) Of course they did. It's a commercial, not a delicious Thanksgiving dinner (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) That's what Thanksgiving is all about - meeting friends and eating a lot. (Unhook the Stars; writing credit: Helen Caldwell; Nick Cassavetes) You know, I really think I can put together a great Thanksgiving dinner (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) I died, and went to Thanksgiving. (MacGyver; writing credit: John Gorrie) | |
Lyrics | And mama made miracles every Thanksgiving (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) Happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973) The Thanksgiving Story (1973) A Day of Thanksgiving (1951) Koko's Thanksgiving (1925) Henry's Thanksgiving (1916) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | FAIRWEATHER moored at Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe Bay. During Hurricane Iwa. Power knocked out to Marine Corps Base. FAIRWEATHER cooked Thanksgiving turkeys for Marine Corps families. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Shipboard and scientific crew unite for the 2nd Annual Thanksgiving Pinata Festival on board the NOAA Ship McARTHUR during Project STAR 2000. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Ryan addressed several Air Force issues Nov. 23, when he visited Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with airmen from the 39th Wing and people deployed there to support Operation Northern Watc. |  | U.S. Army. Base Hospital No.13, Limoges, France. : Nurses' Dining Hall, Thanksgiving Day. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No.1, Paris, France. : Wounded soldiers enjoying Thanksgiving Dinner. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Eats Thanksgiving dinner with the crew of his flagship, USS New Jersey (BB-62), 30 November 1944. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Men running an obstacle race, during Thanksgiving Day celebrations on board Charleston at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 1893. Credit: NAVY. |  | The lambs celebrate Thanksgiving. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Youth's Companion, Thanksgiving number. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Thanksgiving feast in Berlin 1943 / Berryman. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Thanksgiving Plaza 2" by Sydney Fulbright Commentary: "Thanksgiving Plaza." | "Thanksgiving Dining Room Table" by David Sinofksy Commentary: "Thanksgiving Dining Room Table Set for Dinner." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francis Quarles | The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. |
George R. Hendrick | True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him. |
Henry Ward Beecher | Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Taiwan | Whole turkey imports continued to service Thanksgiving and Christmas sales to foreigners and a limited Taiwanese audience. (references) |
Travel | Korea | Note: All holidays are annually fixed calendar days with the exception of Lunar New Year and Korean Thanksgiving (Chusok) Day which vary every year in timing and duration depending on the Chinese lunar calendar. (references) |
Philippines | The U.S. Mission in the Philippines observes the following U.S. public holidays: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Every year on this Wednesday before Thanksgiving, we regale you with the real story of this holiday. |
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| "Thanksgiving" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thanksgiving" is used about 190 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 190 | 22,288 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Thanksgiving": thanksgiving cactus ♦ thanksgiving day ♦ thanksgiving Day Dinner. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Thanksgiving"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lutje falënderimi, falënderim (acknowledgement, thanks). (various references) | |
Arabic | عيد قومي في أمريكا, عيد الشكر, شكر (acknowledgement, gratitude, recognize, render, return, thank, thankfulness, thanks). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | благодарствен молеблен, изразяване на благодарност. (various references) | |
Chinese | 感恩 . (various references) | |
Czech | díkùvzdání. (various references) | |
Farsi | سپاسگزاری (Gratitude, Gratuity, Thank), شکرگزاری (Eucharist). (various references) | |
Finnish | kiitosjumalanpalvelus (thanksgiving service). (various references) | |
French | action de grâces. (various references) | |
German | Danksagung (note of thanks). (various references) | |
Greek | έκφραση ευχαριστίων (thanks giving), ημέρα των Ευχαριστίων, ευχαριστήρια, ευχαριστία (eucharist, thanks giving), δοξολογία (glorification, thanks giving). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תודה (gratitude, thanks), הודיה (eulogy, praise), הבעת תודה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hálaadás. (various references) | |
Italian | ringraziamento. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 感謝祭 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かんしゃさい. (various references) | |
Manx | toyrt booise. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anksgivingthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ação de graças (counterwork). (various references) | |
Romanian | tedeum. (various references) | |
Russian | благодарственный молебен (eucharist), благодарение благодарственный, благодарение. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zahvaljivanje (graces, thanks), blagodarenje. (various references) | |
Spanish | Accio/n de Gracias, acción de gracias. (various references) | |
Swedish | tacksägelse. (various references) | |
Thai | การแสดงความขอบคุณ (thank-you). (various references) | |
Turkish | şükretme (being grateful for, being thankful, halleluiah, hallelujah, hosanna), şükran günü (thanksgiving day). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | подячний молебень, подяка (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, benediction, commendation, gratitude, thank). (various references) | |
Welsh | diolch (give thanks, thank, thanks). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | eukharistia. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | supplicatione, supplicationesque. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Colossians Chapter 4, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Th proseuch proskartereite grhgorounteV en auth en eucaristia |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Orationi instate vigilantes in ea in gratiarum actione |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Be ye bisi in preier, and wake in it, in doynge of thankyngis; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thankes |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Give yourselves to prayer at all times, keeping watch with praise; |
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| Language | Colossians Chapter 4, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Panaglahutay kamo sa pag-ampo, nga magmatukawon samtang magahimo niini uban sa mga pagpasalamat; |
| Chinese | 你 們 要 恆 切 禱 告 、 在 此 儆 醒 感 恩 ． |
| Croatian | U molitvi ustrajte, bdijte u njoj u zahvaljivanju! |
| Danish | Værer vedholdendene i; Bønnen, idet I ere årvågne i den med Taksigelse. |
| Dutch | Houdt sterk aan in het gebed, en waakt in hetzelve met dankzegging; |
| Finnish | Olkaa kestäväiset rukouksessa ja siinä kiittäen valvokaa, |
| French | Persévérez dans la prière, veillez-y avec actions de grâces. |
| German | Haltet an am Gebet und wachet in demselben mit Danksagung; |
| Hungarian | Az imádságban állhatatosak legyetek, vigyázván abban hálaadással; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Hendaklah kalian berdoa dengan tekun dan siap siaga, sambil mengucap syukur kepada Allah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hendaklah kamu bertekun di dalam doa, dan jagalah di dalam hal itu dengan mengucap syukur, |
| Italian | Perseverate nella preghiera e vegliate in essa, rendendo grazie. |
| Latvian | Esiet pastâvîgi lûgðanâ un pateicîbâ modri! |
| Maori | ¶ Kia u ki te inoi, kia mataara tonu ki taua mea i runga i te whakawhetai; |
| Norwegian | Vær vedholdende i bønnen, så I våker i den med takksigelse, |
| Portuguese | Perseverai na oração, velando nela com ações de graças, |
| Rumanian | Stqruiyi kn rugqciune, vegheayi kn ea cu mulyqmiri. |
| Shuar | ¶ Yus áujkuram Nii yuminsarum asummiarum iniaitsuk áujsatarum. |
| Swahili | Dumuni katika sala, na mnaposali muwe waangalifu, mkimshukuru Mungu. |
| Swedish | Varen uthålliga i bönen och vaken i den under tacksägelse. |
| Uma | ¶ Tida-koi mosampaya, neo' nibahakai mpo'uli' tarima kasi hi Alata'ala. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Thanksgiving": thanksgivings. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Thanksgiving" (pronounced tha'ngksgi"ving) |
| 6 | -s g i" v i ng | misgiving. |
| 5 | -g i" v i ng | forgiving, giving, unforgiving. |
| 4 | -i" v i ng | living, reliving, sieving. |
| 3 | -v i ng | approving, absolving, achieving, arriving, behaving, believing, braving, calving, caregiving, carving, caving, conceiving, conniving, conserving, craving, curving, deceiving, delving, depriving, deriving, deserving, disapproving, disbelieving, dissolving, diving, driving, earthmoving, engraving, evolving, grieving, halving, having, heaving, improving, interleaving, interweaving, involving, jiving, leaving, lifesaving, loving, misbehaving, moving, observing, paving, perceiving, preserving, proving, raving, receiving, relieving, removing, reserving, resolving, retrieving, reviving, revolving, revving, saving, serving, shaving, shelving, shoving, skydiving, solving, starving, staving, striving, surviving, thieving, thriving, unbelieving, undeserving, unnerving, unswerving, waiving, waving, weaving. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-h-i-i-k-n-n-s-t-v" | |
-3 letters: antikings, knighting, thinkings, vanishing. | |
-4 letters: agisting, antiking, gnashing, hangings, sainting, shanking, sighting, staining, stanging, stinging, stinking, thanking, thinking. | |
-5 letters: antings, gaining, gaiting, gashing, gasking, gasting, gingiva, hanging, hanking, hanting, hasting, hinging, hinting, histing, insight, kainits, kinging, kithing, knavish, knights, nighing, saining, shaking, shaving, shining, sighing, signing, singing, sinking, skating, skiting, skiving, snaking, staging. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-h-i-i-k-n-n-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: thanksgivings. | |
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