blessingnoun
uk/ˈbles.ɪŋ/us/ˈbles.ɪŋ/blessing noun (RELIGIOUS WORDS)
[ C or U ] a request by a priest for God to take care of a particular person or a group of people, or God's act of doing this:
The mass always ends with a blessing.
We ask God's blessing on Joan at this difficult time.
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Religious ceremonies & prayers
- alleluia
- amen
- anoint
- baptism
- bar mitzvah
- burnt offering
- confirm
- confirmation
- consecrate
- creed
- dedicate
- devotion
- incense
- intercession
- liturgy
- matins
- ordination
- Our Father
- pray
- sermon
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blessing noun (LUCKY SITUATION)
[ C ] something that is extremely lucky or makes you happy:
It was a blessing that no one was killed in the accident.
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Good luck and bad luck
- a blessing in disguise idiom
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- be a good idiom
- be bad luck on sb idiom
- be down on your luck idiom
- favour
- godsend
- grace
- hapless
- happenstance
- happily
- lap
- misadventure
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- mixed blessing
- shame
- streak
- stroke
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Causing pleasure
blessing noun (APPROVAL)
sb's blessing
approval that someone gives to a plan or action:
The committee has given its blessing to the plan.
Eventually they got married with her father's blessing.
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Allowing and permitting
- admit of sth
- allow
- allow of sth
- allowable
- authorization
- authorize
- concession
- green
- leave
- let
- let sb/sth in
- let sb/sth out
- licence
- license
- mandate
- OK
- open the floodgates idiom
- sanction
- submit
- unlicensed
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Approving & approval
Idiom(s)
a blessing in disguise