Monday

Meanings

Noun

• The second day of the week in many religious traditions, and the first day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.

Adverb

• on Monday

Related

Similar words

• Mon, Mon.

Narrower meaning words

• Ash Monday
• Black Monday
• Bloody Monday
• blue Monday
• Clean Monday
• Collop Monday
• Cyber Monday
• Ducking Monday
• Easter Monday
• Fat Monday
• Green Monday
• Handsel Monday
• Hock Monday
• Holy Monday
• Meal Monday
• Pentecost Monday
• Pure Monday
• Rope Monday
• Saint Monday
• Selection Monday
• Shrove Monday
• Trinity Monday
• Wet Monday
• Whit Monday
• Whitsun Monday

Broader meaning words

• day

Origin

• From Middle English Monday, Monenday, from Old English mōnandæġ ("day of the moon"), from Proto-West Germanic *mānini dag, a translation (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Lūnae, equivalent to Moon + day. Compare Saterland Frisian Moundai, West Frisian moandei, German Low German Maandag, Moondag, Maondag, Dutch maandag, German Montag, Pennsylvania German Mundaag, Danish mandag, Swedish måndag, Norwegian Bokmål mandag, Norwegian Nynorsk måndag, Icelandic mánudagur, Finnish maanantai.