countergift
countergift noun: a gift given in response to a gift received.
Noun
countergift (plural countergifts)
- A gift given in response to a gift received.
- Whether the advice contained in this Envoy was or was not followed, is of no importance; but it certainly was the occasion of a counter-gift of a memorandum-book, possibly too fine a one for use […]1838, Charles Armitage Brown, Shakespeare’s Autobiographical Poems, page 78
- And each gift in this enormous complex trails its own wake of counter-gifts and obligations to be fulfilled at a future date.1929, Bronisław Malinowski, chapter 6, in The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, page 160
Forms of countergift
| plural | countergifts |
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Origin of countergift
From counter- + gift.
Questions about countergift
- What does countergift mean?
- Countergift means a gift given in response to a gift received.
- What part of speech is countergift?
- Countergift is a noun.
- What is the plural of countergift?
- The plural of countergift is countergifts.
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