Thursday
Meanings
Noun
- The fifth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fourth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Wednesday and precedes Friday.
Adverb
- on Thursday
Related
Similar words
Narrower meaning words
- Ascension Thursday
- Black Thursday
- Bounds Thursday
- Carnival Thursday
- Chare Thursday
- dirty tricks Thursday
- dress-up Thursday
- Fat Thursday
- Great and Holy Thursday
- Great Thursday
- Green Thursday
- Hallow Thursday
- Holy Thursday
- Maundy Thursday
- Running Thursday
- Shear Thursday
- Sheer Thursday
- Shore Thursday
- Shorpthursday
- Shorthursday
- Shrove Thursday
- Silver Thursday
- Skire Thursday
- Skis Thursday
- Super Thursday
- Whit Thursday
Broader meaning words
Origin
- From Middle English Thursday, Thuresday, from Old English þursdæġ, þurresdæġ, possibly from a contraction of þunresdæġ, but more likely of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse þórsdagr or Old Danish þursdag ("Thursday"); all from Proto-West Germanic *Þunras dag ("day of the thunder god"). Compare West Frisian tongersdei, German Low German Dunnersdag, Dutch donderdag, German Donnerstag, Danish torsdag. More at thunder, day.
- A calque of Latin diēs Iovis (diēs Jovis), via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the god Thor with the Roman god of thunder Jove (Jupiter).
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