Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state of being grateful; thankfulness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being grateful or thankful; a warm and friendly feeling in response to a favor or favors received; thankfulness.
- n. Synonyms See grateful.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being grateful.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, probably from Late Latin grātitūdō, from Latin grātus, pleasing; see gwerə-2 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.”
“Long-term gratitude is unlikely and suspicion of U.S. motives will increase as the occupation continues.”
“The third reason for our gratitude is the decision of the General Assembly to overwhelmingly return us to the Security Council.”
“The sense which we call gratitude, and which is not unmingled with what we call honor, came to this young cave man then.”
“She did not comprehend, perhaps, the depth of the sentiment with which her protector inspired her, which she called gratitude, but which, though she was unconscious of it, was really more than that.”
“It is what parades represent - a celebration, a commemoration, and an expression of gratitude by a community that has finally learned to separate the war from warriors.”
The Huffington Post: Paul Rieckhoff: If the Giants or Pats get a parade, shouldn't Iraq vets?
“Not in gratitude, but in oxytocin; the elevation that comes from community, from purpose.”
the cadillacs come creeping through the night and the poison gas
“She will also be missed by her former owner who actually bought me 40 lbs. of cat food in gratitude for my giving the kittens a home.”
“So I went ahead and borrowed a blue ribbon and am "wearing" it on my blog this week in gratitude for the very fact that I can do so, openly, without fear of suppression, persecution, or death.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gratitude’.
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I do itude
words - real or unreal - ending in -itude: An it-ode as opposed to an itune???
worditude, habitude, lippitude, vicissitude, vastitude, unitude, spissitude, lenitude, latitude, lenticitude, locticitude, lentitude and 66 more...
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Words to live by
and my mantras
faith, God, Buddha, Muhammad, laughter, simplicity, hope, gratitude, Jesus, science, theology, agnosticism and 16 more...

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