Thanksgiving dinner

November holiday meal

Thanksgiving dinner is the traditional meal eaten on Thanksgiving Day in the United States, typically featuring roasted turkey with stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie.

The meal centers on abundance and gathering with family: We're hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year.

The phrase often stands in for the whole holiday event: Are you coming to Thanksgiving dinner?

Related

mashed potatoes · family · family gathering · feast · food coma · second helpings · November · harvest · grateful · table · blessing · cornucopia · pilgrim · carving · day after · casserole · rolls · wishbone

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formality and occasion

Thanksgiving dinnerTV dinner

Packaged frozen meal

desk lunch · microwave meal · microwave dinner · leftovers · midnight snack

abundance and scarcity

Thanksgiving dinnerfamine

Severe food shortage

starvation · hunger · empty plate · food scarcity · going hungry

social context

Thanksgiving dinnereating alone

Consuming food unaccompanied

estranged family

Family

thanksgiving, dinner, thank, thanks, thanking, thanked, thankful, thankfully, thankfulness

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Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G