sunday
Forms
- Plural
- sundays
- present (v1)
- sunday
- past (v2)
- sundayed
- past participle (v3)
- sundayed
- present participle
- sundaying
- 3rd person singular
- sundays
Definitions
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.
- But on that Sunday it was filled with Episcopalians from around the country who had traveled to South Bend to attend his campaign launch.
- And after missing a simple header in the first half, the Manchester United striker ensured England topped Group D to set up a quarter-final meeting with Italy in Kiev on Sunday.
2.Describes someone who does something occasionally or casually, and therefore without skill.(informal)
- Your face is the color of a Sunday swimmer who swallowed half the pool.
- My limbs felt hollow, empty. Empty, empty, empty. A Sunday cyclist on a casual ride could have passed me.
- If he even tries it, then his addiction will take over again. An alcoholic can never become a “Sunday drinker”.
3.A newspaper published on Sunday.(informal)
- I gave him the switchboard with my love, went down to the Savoy for breakfast and read the Sundays.
4.A comic strip published in a Sunday newspaper.(informal)
- I will teach you how to fish next Sunday.
- Is it open on Sunday?
1.To spend Sunday (at a certain place, with a certain person or people, etc.).(informal)
- The dogs and I were Sundaying on the garden lawn.
- I waded through accounts of new calves and colts, new fences and barns, who “Sundayed” with his brother, etc., and soon had a list of all the cases in that part of the country.
1.On Sunday.(informal)
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1074
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
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.