Definition of "thanks" []

• Grateful feelings or thoughts; gratitude: a heart full of thanks for our escape. (noun-plural)
• An expression of gratitude: gave thanks to God; a note of thanks to a contributor. (noun-plural)
• Used to express thanks. (interjection)
• No thanks to Without the benefit of help from: finally found the house, no thanks to these confusing directions. (idiom)
• Thanks to On account of; because of: "our national good fortune in having avoided, thanks to the religion clauses of the First Amendment, the dismal possibilities of religious censorship” ( Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.) (idiom)

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• "Love thanks i’d really apprecieate it……my sister also uses my email so make sure you put who its from…..thanks so much alison on 29 Jan 2004 at 10:54 pm92Margaret can u plz write these words in tht elvish font?"
• "It looks a matter of when, not if, Manchester City wins the title thanks to the club's huge spending power."
• "Oh, I'd heard the term thanks to exposés on the evening news and that kind of thing, but I never really thought about it."