gift

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   give as a present

   make a gift of

2. 2
   noun

   Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.

   She gave him a cell phone as a birthday gift.

3. 3
   noun

   A talent or natural ability.

   She had a gift for playing the flute.

4. 4
   noun

   The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.

   The office is in the gift of the President.

5. 5
   verb

   To give away, to concede easily.

   Chelsea threw away two points when substitute Salomon Kalou gifted Valencia a penalty five minutes from time with a needless handball.

6. 6
   noun

   the act of giving

7. 7
   noun

   natural abilities or qualities

8. 8
   noun

   something acquired without compensation

Etymology

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 relate…