Sunday
Meanings
Noun
- 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; the Lord's Day; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.
- A newspaper published on Sunday.
- A comic strip published in a Sunday newspaper.
Verb
- To spend Sunday (at a certain place, with a certain person or people, etc.).
Adverb
- On Sundays.
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Similar words
Narrower meaning words
- Albless Sunday
- Alb Sunday
- Antipascha Sunday
- Ascension Sunday
- Black Sunday
- Bloody Sunday
- Branch Sunday
- cannonball Sunday
- Cantate Sunday
- Care Sunday
- Carling Sunday
- Chestnut Sunday
- Christmas Sunday
- Cold Sunday
- Communion Sunday
- Divine Mercy Sunday
- Easter Sunday
- Expectation Sunday
- Fast Sunday
- Fig Sunday
- Garland Sunday
- Gaudete Sunday
- God's Sunday
- Good Shepherd Sunday
- Greasy Sunday
- en
- Hospital Sunday
- Jubilate Sunday
- Judica Sunday
- Justice Sunday
- Laetare Sunday
- Low Sunday
- Mid-fast Sunday
- Mid-Lent Sunday
- Mothering Sunday
- Oculi Sunday
- Palm Sunday
- Passion Sunday
- Plough Sunday
- Quadragesima Sunday
- Quasimodo Sunday
- Quinquagesima Sunday
- Racial Justice Sunday
- Refreshment Sunday
- Remembrance Sunday
- Reminiscere Sunday
- Rogation Sunday
- rope yarn Sunday
- Rose Sunday
- Rush-bearing Sunday
- Saint Sunday
- Scout Sunday
- Seedy Sunday
- Selection Sunday
- Septuagesima Sunday
- Sexagesima Sunday
- Shrove Sunday
- six ways to Sunday
- Stir-up Sunday
- Suicide Sunday
- Super Bowl Sunday
- Super Sunday
- Tap-up Sunday
- Tradition Sunday
- Trinity Sunday
- Vocations Sunday
- White Sunday
- Whit Sunday
- World Communion Sunday
Broader meaning words
Origin
- From Middle English Sonday, from Old English sunnandæġ ("day of the sun"), from sunne, + dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag, as a translation (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Sōlis; declared the "venerable day of the sun" by Roman Emperor Constantine on March 7, 321 .
- Compare Saterland Frisian Sundai ("Sunday"), German Low German Sünndag, Dutch zondag, West Frisian snein, German Sonntag, Danish søndag.
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