1 [usuallysing.] God's help and protection, or a PRAYER asking for this:
to pray for God's blessing * The bishop said the blessing.
2 [usuallysing.] approval of or permission for sth:
The government gave its blessing to the new plans. * He went with his parents' blessing.
3 something that is good or helpful:
Lack of traffic is one of the blessings of country life. * It's a blessing that nobody was in the house at the time.
seealsoMIXEDBLESSING
IDIOMS
a blessing in disguise something that seems to be a problem at first, but that has good results in the end
moreatCOUNTv.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for blessing is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is blessing a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, blessing is tagged as noun.
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