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THANK YOU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thank you mean? 

THANK YOU (noun)
  The noun THANK YOU has 1 sense:

1. a conversational expression of gratitudeplay

  Familiarity information: THANK YOU used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


THANK YOU (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A conversational expression of gratitude

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("thank you" is a kind of...):

thanks (an acknowledgment of appreciation)


 Context examples 


“Oh, thank you, Master Copperfield,” said Uriah Heep, “for that remark! It is so true! Umble as I am, I know it is so true! Oh, thank you, Master Copperfield!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Thank you—but I always mend my own.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I'd rather stay here, thank you.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I thank you for the proposal, Mr. Rivers, and I accept it with all my heart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

No, I thank you: no, certainly not.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“No, thank you, miss,” said the fox, “what is Mrs Fox doing?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"Good-bye, and thank you very much," returned the girl; and the Monkeys rose into the air and were out of sight in a twinkling.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

No more road in mine, thank you kindly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Excellent man! I thank you and accept your generous offer.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Yes, ma’am, I thank you.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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