Thanksgiving Day: Meaning and Definition of

Thanksgiv'ing Day"

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  1. 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.
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