Gift

Gifts under a Christmas tree.

A gift or a present is something (usually money or a good) which is given to someone. People give gifts voluntarily and do not expect anything in return. A gift is usually something that family or friends give to each other on special acations like a birthday or a holiday. For example you will give gifts and presents at Christmas time, or Chocolates for Easter. Gifts are usually something that you really want to get. If it is a birthday gift, it would be clothes, money, or a toy that is not very costly. A small gift is usually wrapped up in wrapping paper, a big gift is most likely to be just given to or have a bow at the top.

Further reading

• Marcel Mauss and W.D. Halls, Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, W. W. Norton, 2000, trade paperback, ISBN 0-393-32043-X
• 35, Fall 1982.
• Jean-Luc Marion translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky, "Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Giveness", Stanford University Press, 2002 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8047-3410-0.