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Sunday.

The first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian Sabbath; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈsʌn.deɪ//ˈsʌn.di//ˈsʊn.deɪ/Northern-England/ˈsʊn.də/Northumbria
  1. The first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian Sabbath; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.

  2. A newspaper published on Sunday.

    informal
  3. A comic strip published in a Sunday newspaper.

    informal
  4. Describes someone who does something occasionally or casually, and therefore without skill.

    attributive · informal
  5. Describes something particularly fine and elegant, particularly something that could be worn to or used at church.

    attributive · informal
Where this word comes from

From Middle English Sonday, from Old English sunnandæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *Sunnōn dag (literally “day of the Sun”), equivalent to sun + day, as a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Sōlis; declared the "venerable day of the sun" by Roman Emperor Constantine on March 7, 321 C.E. Compare Saterland Frisian Sundai (“Sunday”), German Low German Sünndag, Dutch zondag, West Frisian snein, German Sonntag, Danish søndag, Yiddish זונטיק (zuntik).

verb/ˈsʌn.deɪ//ˈsʌn.di//ˈsʊn.deɪ/Northern-England/ˈsʊn.də/Northumbria
  1. To spend Sunday (at a certain place, with a certain person or people, etc.).

    informal · intransitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English Sonday, from Old English sunnandæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *Sunnōn dag (literally “day of the Sun”), equivalent to sun + day, as a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Sōlis; declared the "venerable day of the sun" by Roman Emperor Constantine on March 7, 321 C.E. Compare Saterland Frisian Sundai (“Sunday”), German Low German Sünndag, Dutch zondag, West Frisian snein, German Sonntag, Danish søndag, Yiddish זונטיק (zuntik).

adv/ˈsʌn.deɪ//ˈsʌn.di//ˈsʊn.deɪ/Northern-England/ˈsʊn.də/Northumbria
  1. On Sunday.

    Canada · US · informal · not-comparable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English Sonday, from Old English sunnandæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *Sunnōn dag (literally “day of the Sun”), equivalent to sun + day, as a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Sōlis; declared the "venerable day of the sun" by Roman Emperor Constantine on March 7, 321 C.E. Compare Saterland Frisian Sundai (“Sunday”), German Low German Sünndag, Dutch zondag, West Frisian snein, German Sonntag, Danish søndag, Yiddish זונטיק (zuntik).

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