Friday

Meanings

Noun

• The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Muslim Sabbath; it follows Thursday and precedes Saturday.
• The last workday in a work schedule that is not Monday through Friday.

Adverb

• On Friday.

Related

Similar words

• Fri, Fri.

Narrower meaning words

• Black Friday
• Bloody Friday
• casual Friday
• dress-down Friday
• expiration Friday
• First Friday
• gal Friday
• girl Friday
• Girl Friday
• Golden Friday
• Good Friday
• Great and Holy Friday
• Great Friday
• guy Friday
• Hollywood Black Friday
• Holy Friday
• Long Friday
• man Friday
• Man Friday
• Marlboro Friday
• next sitting Friday
• person Friday
• Red Friday
• thank God it's Friday
• thank goodness it's Friday
• virtual Friday

Broader meaning words

• day

Origin

• From Middle English Friday, from Old English frīġedæġ. Compound of frīġe and dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *Frījā dag, a calque of Latin diēs Veneris, via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess of love Venus.
• Compare West Frisian freed, German Low German Freedag, Friedag, Dutch vrijdag, German Freitag, Danish fredag.
• Old Norse Frigg (genitive Friggjar), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frig are derived from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō. Frigg is cognate with Sanskrit प्रिया. The root also appears in Old Saxon fri; in Swedish fria, in Danish and Norwegian as fri; a related meaning exists in Icelandic as frjá and similarly in Dutch vrijen.