Gratitude

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: grat=i=tude

CIDE DICTIONARY

Gratitude, n. [F. gratitude, LL. gratitudo, from gratus agreeable, grateful. See Grate, a.].

 The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness.  [1913 Webster]
"The debt immense of endless gratitude."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Gratitude, n. being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.

Etymology

F gratitude or med.L gratitudo f. gratus thankful

ROGET THESAURUS

Gratitude

Gratitude

N gratitude, thankfulness, feeling of obligation, sense of obligation, acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, thanksgiving, giving thanks, thankful good will, thanks, praise, benediction, paean, Te Deum, grace, grace before meat, grace after meat, grace before meals, grace after meals, thank offering, requital, grateful, thankful, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under obligation, Int, thanks!, many thanks!, gramercy!, much obliged!, thank you!, thank you very much!, thanks a lot!, thanks a heap, thanks loads, thank Heaven!, Heaven be praised!, Gott sei Dank!.