gift (original) (raw)
Meaning of gift in English
gift noun (ABILITY)
Idioms
The child's grandmother had gifted her £10,000.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- giveGive me that dirty plate.
- offerYour doctor should be able to offer advice.
- provideThis booklet provides useful information about local services.
- supplyThe lake supplies the whole town with water.
- donateFour hundred dollars has been donated to the school book fund.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
(Definition of gift from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of gift
gift
In the economic world this novel constructs, money and commodities are not intrinsically bad, just as altruism and gifts are not intrinsically good.
The friars sent back covered baskets which concealed reciprocal gifts.
In this example, it cannot be said if the gifts were compulsory, recommended, or completely voluntary.
The ideal process contains only one limitation: are we gifted or not?
Under this proposal, farmers and pastoralists may enjoy rights of transfer through subleases, loaning, inheritance or gifts.
In proportion, as she becomes niggardly in her gifts, she exacts a greater price for her work.
In contrast, one-off financial gifts to grandchildren were common and by far the most frequent type of private financial transfer.
Such gifts have the potential to cross the border into vote buying.
Paying a dowry for marriage does not lead to a complete commodification of women, but it differs significantly from giving mere ritual gifts.
What has, however, seen drastic changes are the brides and the marriage gifts.
The article demonstrates how the giving of money has influenced other categories of gifts, while the market logic has drawn from cultural considerations.
We swap small gifts, we go out together.
Thus gifts of maps in 1908, like gifts of photographs in 1930, were used to make absence appear with a determined legal sense in 1962.
Both are peerless beauties and possess considerable musical gifts.
Favors such as gifts, meals, and invitations obligate us to a future repayment of some kind.
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Collocations with gift
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But anyone with four children finds that each of them can have only a quarter of that and an annual gift of £250.
Another birthday we cannot share, my birthday gift must be a prayer.
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Translations of gift
in Chinese (Traditional)
禮物, 贈品, 極容易完成的事…
in Chinese (Simplified)
礼物, 赠品, 极容易完成的事…
in Spanish
regalo, don, regalo [masculine]…
in Portuguese
presente, dom, presente [masculine]…
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armağan, hediye, doğuştan gelen/Allah vergisi kabiliyet/yetenek…
cadeau [masculine], don [masculine], cadeau…
geschenk, gave, schenken…
ஒரு பரிசு அல்லது கொடுக்கப்பட்ட ஏதாவது ஒன்று, ஏதாவது செய்ய ஒரு சிறப்பு திறன்…
उपहार, तोहफा, (कुछ करने की विशिष्ट) क्षमता…
hadiah, bakat, menghadiahkan…
das Geschenk, die Begabung, schenken…
gave [masculine], presang [masculine], talent [neuter]…
تحفہ, خداداد قابلیت, سوغات…
подарунок, дар, обдарованість…
బహుమతి/కనుక, ఏదైనా చేయగల ప్రత్యేక సామర్థ్యం…
উপহার, উপঢৌকন, বিশেষ দক্ষতা বা দখল…
hadiah, bakat, menghadiahkan…
quà tặng, năng khiếu, tặng quà…
regalo, dono, dote naturale…
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