- to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
- a grateful feeling or acknowledgment of a benefit, favor, or the like, expressed by words or otherwise: to return a borrowed book with thanks.
- (used as an informal expression of gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment).
- to be personally to blame; have the responsibility: The citizens have only themselves to thank for corruption in government.
- (used to express annoyance) not owing to: I caught my flight after all, no thanks to you.
- (used as an interjection to express relief, thankfulness, etc.)
- (used to express gratitude or blame) because of; owing to: Thanks to good organization and hard work, the benefit concert was a great success.The case went poorly thanks to the lawyer's incompetence.
- (used as an interjection to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment, as for a gift, favor, service, or courtesy).
- to convey feelings of gratitude to
- to hold responsible
- used in exclamations of relief
- used ironically to intensify a command, request, etc
