thanks

Could you give me a hand, please? — Yes, sure. — Thanks.

Your last gift, for which thanks, made my family so happy.

Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

Used to express appreciation or gratitude.

dankie

used to express appreciation or gratitude

From Middle English thanks, thankes, from Old English þancas (“thanks”), from Proto-Germanic *þankōs, nominative plural of *þankaz (“thought, gratitude”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel”). More at thank.


thanks

After all I’ve done, a simple acknowledgment is the thanks I get?

An expression of appreciation or gratitude.

Grateful feelings or thoughts; favour, goodwill, graciousness.

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thanks pl (normally plural, singular (obsolete) thank)


thanks

third-person singular simple present indicative of thank