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Thanksgiving Day   /θˌæŋksgˈɪvɪŋ deɪ/   Listen
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 the Wampanoag.  Synonym: Thanksgiving.






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"Thanksgiving day" Quotes from Famous Books



... astrologer with no little virulence, for which he was rewarded with the privilege of holding forth upon Thanksgiving Day, and so, as Butler ...
— Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers • W. A. Clouston

... THAT "movable feast," Thanksgiving Day, gave Isaac occasion for making this examination of conscience at five o'clock in ...
— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott

... Thanksgiving Day, a custom preserved in certain portions of the Directorate of North America, is three weeks away—even though it ...
— With a Vengeance • J. B. Woodley

... "Last Thanksgiving Day we were all together—eight hundred of us in the assembly room for the exercises. Two men get pardoned out on that day, and the two who were set free were in for manslaughter—one for twenty years, the other for life. They had been in eighteen years. I watched their faces when their numbers ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller

... of Thanksgiving day, John Inglefield, the blacksmith, sat in his elbow-chair, among those who had been keeping festival at his board. Being the central figure of the domestic circle, the fire threw its strongest light on his massive and sturdy ...
— John Inglefield's Thanksgiving - (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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