Thanksgiving Day

Definition: Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day

Noun

1. 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.

Specialty Definition: Thanksgiving Day

Synonyms within Context: Thanksgiving Day

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.
Sociality	Birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve party, Thanksgiving Day Dinner; bonenkai; wedding reception.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Thanksgiving Day

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Today is thanksgiving day for cats. (Pet Sematary; writing credit: Stephen King)
Movie/TV Titles	On Thanksgiving Day (1908) Thanksgiving Day (1990)
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Commercial Usage: Thanksgiving Day

Domain	Title
Books	Thanksgiving Day (reference) Thanksgiving Day at Our House: Thanksgiving Poems for the Very Young (reference) The Little Engine That Could Saves the Thanksgiving Day Parade (Reading Railroad Books) (reference) The Very First Thanksgiving Day (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Thanksgiving Day

Photo Album: Thanksgiving Day

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	U.S. Army. Base Hospital No.13, Limoges, France. : Nurses' Dining Hall, Thanksgiving Day. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Men running an obstacle race, during Thanksgiving Day celebrations on board Charleston at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 1893. Credit: NAVY.
	Three-legged race on board Charleston during Thanksgiving Day celebrations at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 1893. Participants include British and German sailors. The onlookers appear to be of mixed nationalities, as well. Credit: NAVY.		A festive moment : Thanksgiving Day. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Thanksgiving Day, 1933. Credit: Library of Congress.		James River, Va. Butler's dredge-boat, sunk by a Confederate shell on Thanksgiving Day, 1864. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Dogsled crossing bay on Thanksgiving Day. Credit: Library of Congress.		At the Crouch family on Thanksgiving Day preparing the dinner. Ledyard, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress.
	The children's table at the Crouch family Thanksgiving Day dinner. Ledyard, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress.		Stutz Weightman Special and another automobile going around turn on Benning race track, Washington, D.C., area on Thanksgiving Day. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Thanksgiving Day

Subject	Topic	Quote
Travel	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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Expression: Thanksgiving Day

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thanksgiving Day

Modern Translation: Thanksgiving Day

Language		Translations for "Thanksgiving Day"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		den díkùvzdání. (various references)

Greek		ημέρα των ευχαριστίων (thanks giving day). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		収穫感謝祭 (harvest festival), 勤労感謝の日 (November 23), サロン的 (exclusive, sanction, sanctuary, Sangerism, sangria, sans couture, seamless, social, sour, sour cream, Sun, sunglasses, Sunkist, suntan oil, thank you). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅうかくか�"しゃさい (harvest festival), き�"ろうか�"しゃのひ (November 23), サンクスギ�"ングデー . (various references)

Pig Latin		anksgivingthay ayday

Romanian		sãrbãtoare naţionalã în s.u.a.. (various references)

Russian		день благодарения. (various references)

Spanish		día de acción de gracias. (various references)

Swedish		tacksägelsedagen. (various references)

Turkish		şükran günü (thanksgiving). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Thanksgiving Day

Anagrams: Thanksgiving Day

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-g-h-i-i-k-n-n-s-t-v-y"
	-3 letters: thanksgiving.
	-5 letters: divagating, gainsaying, indagating, navigating.
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Domain	Definition
19th Century Satire	(Last Thursday in November). A day devoted to the annual division of Turkey--with Greece on the side--by the Hung'ry folks. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
thanksgiving day	84
macys thanksgiving day parade	78
thanksgiving day parade	11
thanksgiving day history	10
2003 macys thanksgiving day parade	4
thanksgiving day menu	3
thanksgiving day recipe	3
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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	dies. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "Thanksgiving Day": thanksgiving Day Dinner. Additional references.
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Thanksgiving Day

Definition: Thanksgiving Day