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Thanksgiving Day
noun
- a national holiday celebrated as a day of feasting and giving thanks for divine favors or goodness, observed on the fourth Thursday of November in the U.S. and in Canada on the second Monday of October.
Thanksgiving Day
noun
- an annual day of holiday celebrated in thanksgiving to God on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, and on the second Monday of October in Canada Often shortened toThanksgiving
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Thanksgiving Day1
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Example Sentences
Two weeks from Thanksgiving Day, potheads all over Washington State will finally get to emerge from the shadows, bongs held high.
They both had something to tell before Thanksgiving Day, but it was not just what Elizabeth had expected to hear.
A good old-fashioned story for the older boys and girls to read on the Sunday before Thanksgiving Day.
For instance, the day before Thanksgiving Day, in many regions, is the busiest telephone traffic day in the year.
On Thanksgiving day of 1862 we reached my uncle's house in the neighborhood where we now live.
It is nearly three hundred years since the first Thanksgiving Day.
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