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offering

offering

64 3.7
A gift given to a church or charity
  • noun
  • /ˈɔfərɪŋ/
: ofrenda
  • The community collected a generous offering to support the local food bank.
  • make offerings
  • sacrificial offering
  • offerings to spirits

And it's about what is my offering in this world?

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Examples

  • Two women come seeking guidance and make an offering of flowers.

  • We have our offering to the God of Waters.

    Kings of the Sun (1963)

  • To reverse the evil that has been done, I make this offering to the Divine One.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Let's collect our offerings and depart.

    Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

  • It raises most of our funding through church offerings.

    God's Country (2012)

  • An elder prays and scatters a small rice offering to the spirits over the water.

    Academic text (1991)

  • As an afterthought, she enclosed an offering of two dollars in Reverend Bobby Hawkins's envelope.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • During the church service, the congregation made their offering to help those in need.

  • Every Sunday, members of the congregation bring their offering to support the church's charitable work.

Synonyms

donation
vsoffering
433 1.9

Money, goods, or time given to help others and organizations

is a sum of money or items, not an act of volunteering time
contribution
vsoffering
311 2.5

Money given to help a charity or fund

is a sum of money or items often given to a church or charity
oblation
vsoffering
1 9.9

Things given to a church or charity to help others

is the specific sum or items given rather than the act
philanthropic gift
vsoffering
1 3.8

A donation of money that helps people or organizations

is often a simple sum given to church or charity without broad humanitarian aim

Compounds

peace offering
22 3.7

A gift or action that ends an argument and brings back friendship

initial offering
  • Specialized
9 6.7

A company's first sale of shares to the public on a stock market

initial public offering
  • Specialized
7 5.3

The first time a company sells shares to the public on the stock market

rights offering
  • Specialized
1 6.8

An offer for people who already own a company's shares to buy more at a lower price before others

thank offering
1 8.7

A gift people give to show they are grateful, often in a religious ceremony

religious offering
  • Specialized
6.7

To bring bread and wine to the altar during a Christian service

How Generous

offering
64 3.7
contribution
311 2.5

Surface Forms

offering singular
offerings plural

Morphology

offering = offer (transparent) = offer + ing

Derived by adding '-ing' to 'offer'; the sense 'donation' is a conventionalized subtype but remains 'something offered'.

Etymology

Offering comes from the verb offer, which comes from the old parts ob- 'to' and ferre 'bring'. Long used for gifts at church, an offering is something you 'bring' as a gift or donation.