gift

CEFRA1

/ɡɪft/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    Something given to someone without payment.

  2. 02

    noun

    A natural ability or talent.

Examples

  • That child was happy to get the gift.

  • I cannot accept your gift.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A talent or natural ability.

  2. Something gained incidentally, without effort.

  3. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.

More examples

In context

  • You have a gift for music.

  • She gave him a cell phone as a birthday gift.

  • She had a gift for playing the flute.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English gift (also yift, yifte, ȝift, ȝeft), partly from Old English ġift (“giving, consideration, dowry, wedding”) and Old Norse gipt (“gift, present, wedding”); both from Proto-Germanic *giftiz (“gift”). Equivalent to give + -t (etymologically yive + -t). Cognate with West Frisian jefte (“gift”), Saterland Frisian Gift (“gift”), German Low German Gift (“poison”), Dutch gift (“gift”) and its doublet gif (“poison”), German Gift (“poison”), Danish gift (“gift (obsolete); poison, venom”), Swedish gift (“gift, poison, venom”), Icelandic gift (“gift”). Doublet of yift. Distantly related to English habit, from Latin habitus.