thank-you

[ thangk-yoo ]
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adjective
  1. expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.

noun
  1. an expression of thanks, as by saying “thank you”: I never got so much as a thank-you for helping him.

Origin of thank-you

1
1785–95 for def. 2; noun and adj. use of verb phrase thank you

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How to use thank-you in a sentence

  • Like overlapping broadcasts of sound, the farewells and thank-yous crossed and crisscrossed among them.

    The Orchard Secret | Cleo Garis
  • Jeanne wanted to throw her arms about her grandfather's neck, and say a thousand thank-yous, but plainly this was not the time.

    The Cinder Pond | Carroll Watson Rankin
  • There was a concert of polite refusals, friendly urgings, and 'thank-yous' in all sorts of voices.

  • If all the thank-yous I feel were piled up they would reach to the skies.

    Little Maid Marian | Amy E. Blanchard

British Dictionary definitions for thank you

thank you

interjection, noun
  1. a conventional expression of gratitude

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