Thxgiving

Proper noun

Thanksgiving (plural Thanksgivings)

1. (Canada, US) Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada, and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States.
   • It is at present impossible to determine when the General Court will adjourn, none of the great business having as yet been attended to, so as to be completed, but there seems to be a general determination to be at home at Thanksgiving. I hope it will be possible.1788, Theodore Sedgwick to his wife, 9 November, in The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections 1788–1790, vol. 1, ed. Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker, University of Wisconsin Press...
2. (Canada, US) The long weekend which includes Thanksgiving Day; Thanksgiving weekend.
3. An analogous celebration in other cultures, especially a harvest festival.
   • Thus Sukkot became the Jewish Thanksgiving.1999, Sol Scharfstein, Understanding Jewish Holidays and Customs: Historical and Contemporary, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., →ISBN, page 39

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