[thangk] 
| 1. | to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality. |
| 2. | thank God, (used interjectionally to express relief, thankfulness, etc.) Also, thank goodness, thank heaven. |
| 3. | Usually, thanks. a grateful feeling or acknowledgment of a benefit, favor, or the like, expressed by words or otherwise: to return a borrowed book with thanks. |
| 4. | thanks, (used as an informal expression of gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment). |
| 5. | have oneself to thank, to be personally to blame; have the responsibility: The citizens have only themselves to thank for corruption in government. |
| 6. | thanks to, because of; owing to: Thanks to good organization and hard work, the benefit concert was a great success. |
| 7. | thank you, (used interjectionally to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment, as for a gift, favor, service, or courtesy). |
| thank (thāngk) tr.v. thanked, thank·ing, thanks
[Middle English thanken, from Old English thancian; see tong- in Indo-European roots.] |
| thanks (thāngks) pl.n.
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