gift
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1.8
- noun
- /ɡɪft/
:
talento
- God has given you the gift of words.
Give them that space to to share their gifts with your audience.
- Give them that space to to share their gifts with your audience.
- Ultimately, discernment is a gift you have to give yourself.
- God has given you the gift of words.
- So the talent, the gift, is it a learned what is it?
- He had just this wonderful gift of talking to the public.
- And wound up being my greatest gift was my brain.
- That's that's the gift I want to bring to the world.
- So I think I think those guys were gifts, gifts to hip hop, right?
- One if my I would say it's a gift and a curse.
Examples
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He had just this wonderful gift of talking to the public.
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Look, your brother has a gift.
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There can be different gifts and different languages, but the teaching remains the same.
Academic text (2011) -
That is an incredible gift and most people ignore it.
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Patrick, you are a gift to all of us.
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I wish only that I had the gift of poetry to say all I'm thinking.
Fiction book (1991) -
The thing is, this gift of mine didn't come with an instruction book.
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That's that's the gift I want to bring to the world.
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What a gift.
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She has a remarkable gift for playing the piano that captivates everyone who hears her.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Skill or power to do something
866
1.2
An ability someone has naturally to do something well
76
3.6
A natural ability to do something well
42
4.2
A natural talent for learning or doing something well
12
2.9
An ability someone is born with to do something well
9
3.4
A natural ability that is strong but not yet trained
8
3.4
A talent someone is born with that they do not learn
6
6.4
A natural quality or ability someone is born with
1
6.1
A natural ability to do something well
An ability a person has from birth
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
7
4.0
Something that keeps bringing good things or joy over a long time
- Informal
1
8.9
A person who thinks they are very attractive or talented and expects people to admire them
Compounds
52
1.4
A card with money on it that you can use to buy things at one store or group of stores
- Informal
6
7.5
A present you should accept without complaining, even if it seems small or bad
How Talented
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gift meaning a natural ability comes from the same idea of something 'given' to you, so a person's musical or language gift is a talent they seem to have received naturally.