gift
something bestowed or acquired without any particular effort by the recipient or without its being earned: Those extra points he got in the game were a total gift.
a special ability or capacity; natural endowment; talent: the gift of saying the right thing at the right time.
to present with as a gift; bestow gifts upon; endow with.
to present (someone) with a gift: just the thing to gift the newlyweds.
Origin of gift
1synonym study For gift
Other words for gift
Other words from gift
- giftless, adjective
Words Nearby gift
Other definitions for GIFT (2 of 2)
gamete intrafallopian transfer: a laparoscopic process in which eggs are retrieved from an ovary by aspiration and inserted, along with sperm, into the fallopian tube of another woman.
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How to use gift in a sentence
A source familiar told me that before that trip Kushner purchased a Torah with his own money as a gift to Bahrain's King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa.
Behind the scenes of the U.S.-brokered Israel-Bahrain agreement | Barak Ravid | September 11, 2020 | AxiosA new and improved keyboard could make a great gift for those hard-working hands of yours.
Serious upgrades for your computer keyboard | PopSci Commerce Team | September 2, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIf your friend or family member has to postpone, Forrest recommends scheduling a phone date with them, offering to help contact guests, and sending them a gift on their original wedding date to make them feel special.
How to update your guests about your pandemic wedding plans | Brooke Henderson | August 29, 2020 | FortuneShe recommends still sending a wedding gift and a thoughtfully written card that explains why you’re RSVP’ing no.
How to turn down a wedding invitation during the coronavirus pandemic | Brooke Henderson | August 23, 2020 | FortuneAdditionally, the pandemic has created financial challenges with millions unemployed, so gift giving might be even more stressful.
A guide to giving gifts for postponed and shrunken weddings | Brooke Henderson | August 20, 2020 | Fortune
The kids had a gift for him too, a tee shirt with ‘Baseball Spoken Here’ stenciled across the front.
While the chicken today might be the least exotic bird one can think of, it was once a gift that wowed kings.
The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity | William O’Connor | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA Christmas Carol revived and reinvented it around the gift of giving.
Then the gift card is shopped online in a gray market to collect cold currency.
The Insane $11 Billion Scam at Retailers’ Return Desks | M.L. Nestel | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMoraca pointed to another form of return fraud, involving gift cards.
The Insane $11 Billion Scam at Retailers’ Return Desks | M.L. Nestel | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe living (value £250) is in the gift of trustees, and is now held by the Rev. M. Parker, Vicar.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellAt the end of the first year, however, she resigned this privilege because she did not wish to accept the conditions of the gift.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementThis gift of rice was especially pleasing to the traveller, as no dish is held in higher honour in Korea.
Our Little Korean Cousin | H. Lee M. PikeIt is certain that I then had a bad cough nearly always; and this I am sure was what decided the form of his parting gift to me.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowHis methodical mind hated the idea of disorder; administration came to him as Nature's gift.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
British Dictionary definitions for gift (1 of 2)
/ (ɡɪft) /
something given; a present
a special aptitude, ability, or power; talent
the power or right to give or bestow (esp in the phrases in the gift of, in (someone's) gift)
the act or process of giving
look a gift-horse in the mouth (usually negative) to find fault with a free gift or chance benefit
to present (something) as a gift to (a person)
(often foll by with) to present (someone) with a gift
rare to endow with; bestow
Origin of gift
1Derived forms of gift
- giftless, adjective
British Dictionary definitions for GIFT (2 of 2)
/ (ɡɪft) /
gamete intrafallopian transfer: a technique, similar to in vitro fertilization, that enables some women who are unable to conceive to bear children. Egg cells are removed from the woman's ovary, mixed with sperm, and introduced into one of her Fallopian tubes
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with gift
In addition to the idiom beginning with gift
- gift of gab
also see:
- look a gift horse in the mouth
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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