Meanings
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1
noun
Something you give to someone, usually to be kind or to celebrate.
She gave him a watch as a birthday gift.
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2
noun
A natural ability or talent.
He has a real gift for languages.
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3
verb
To give something to someone as a present.
My aunt gifted me a beautiful necklace.
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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…