THANKS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thanks mean? 

• THANKS (noun)
  The noun THANKS has 2 senses:

1. an acknowledgment of appreciation

2. with the help of or owing to

  Familiarity information: THANKS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THANKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An acknowledgment of appreciation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("thanks" is a kind of...):

acknowledgement; acknowledgment (a statement acknowledging something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thanks"):

appreciation (an expression of gratitude)

thank you (a conversational expression of gratitude)

bow; curtain call (an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With the help of or owing to

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

thanks to hard work it was a great success

Hypernyms ("thanks" is a kind of...):

aid; assist; assistance; help (the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)

 Context examples 

My mother desires her very best compliments and regards, and a thousand thanks, and says you really quite oppress her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“I ask no thanks,” Alleyne answered shortly.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This promise drew from me the warmest thanks.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Allow me to present the club key, and with many thanks for your favor, take my seat.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The money therefore which Eleanor had advanced was enclosed with little more than grateful thanks, and the thousand good wishes of a most affectionate heart.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Thanks to new research, that could soon change — good news for a world in which rains are increasing in both frequency and intensity.

(Grains in the rain, National Science Foundation)

Most of these diseases are now at their lowest levels in history, thanks to years of immunization.

(Childhood Immunization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

We found out that this was all the Captain knew; so with thanks we came away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Cambridge researchers say the reason they have been able to make theirs produce syngas sustainably is thanks the combination of materials and catalysts they used.

(‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas, University of Cambridge)