{"id":501129,"date":"2026-06-23T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/thank-definition-meaning-merriam-webster\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:18:00","slug":"thank-definition-meaning-merriam-webster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/thank-definition-meaning-merriam-webster\/","title":{"rendered":"THANK Definition &amp; Meaning &#8211; Merriam-Webster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meaning of THANK is to express gratitude to \u2014used in the phrase thank you usually without a subject to politely express gratitude or sometimes to emphasize a preceding statement especially by implying that it is not subject to question \u2014used in such phrases as thank God, thank goodness usually without a subject to express gratitude or more often only the speaker&#8217;s or writer&#8217;s pleasure &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/thank\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/thank<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meaning of THANK is to express gratitude to \u2014used in the phrase thank you usually without a subject to politely express gratitude or sometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}