Каждый четвертый четверг ноября в США и каждый второй понедельник октября в Канаде отмечается День благодарения.

Thanksgiving, also Thanksgiving Day – the fourth Thursday in November, which un the US is a public holiday. CULTURAL NOTE. A day of feasting and prayer, it celebrates the thanksgiving to God in 1621 by the second group of English settlers in what became the US. After losing many men through hunger during their first winter in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the settlers were taught how to grow maize and other crops by the Native Americans. When they gathered thouse crops that autumn they knew they had enough to live on through the second winter, and so they had a feast of thanksgiving with the Native Americans. Today, more Americans travel to see their families on this than on any other day of the year.

The Thanksgiving dinner is traditionally turkey and stuffing, sweet potatoes, many and various vegetables and pumpkin pie.

Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture

 

 

 

Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day in the US, the fourth Thursday in November, and in Canada, the second Monday in October, when families have a special meal, traditionally to celebrate all the things that thay are grateful for: Will you be seeing your family on Thanksgiving? * a Thanksgiving dinner a. in the US, the holiday period of four or five days that incudes this day: Are you going home for Thanksgiving?

Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners