thank
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Is thank a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of thank?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) singular of thanks (“an expression of appreciation or gratitude; grateful feelings or thoughts; favour, goodwill, graciousness”)Examples: "If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same."; "What great thank, then, if any man, reputed wise and constant, will neither do, nor permit others under his charge to do, that which he approves not, especially in matter of sin?"form-ofobsoletesingular
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "She thanked him for the lift."; "[H]aſt thou no ſhame to deſpiſe that perſone, to whom onely and no man els, thou art bounde to thanke, euen for this veraie pointe, that thou ſetteſt ſo moche by thy peinted ſheathe?"; "I can eate no meate, I thanke you."transitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "I’ll thank you not to smoke in my house!"; "Our readers would not thank us for going into the badgerings which had for some time annoyed the chancellor on the subject of arrears in his court."transitive
3. (transitive)raretransitive
4. (transitive)Examples: "I should summon my lord from the Queen's royal presence to do your business, should I?—I were like to be thanked with a horse-whip."figurativelytransitive
5. (transitive)Examples: "We can thank global warming for this freak weather."figurativelytransitive
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To express gratitude.intransitiveobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary