Wednesday

Meanings

Noun

• The fourth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the third day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Tuesday and precedes Thursday.

Proper Noun

• nickname of Sheffield Wednesday of the Football League.

Adverb

• on Wednesday

Related

Similar words

• hump day
• Wed, Wed., Weds

Narrower meaning words

• Ash Wednesday
• Black Wednesday
• calendar Wednesday
• Good Wednesday
• Holy Wednesday
• Spy Wednesday
• White Wednesday
• Whit Wednesday

Broader meaning words

• day

Origin

• From Middle English Wednesday, Wednesdai, Wodnesdei, from Old English wōdnesdæġ ("Wednesday"), from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdanas dag, a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Mercuriī ("day of Mercury") and Koine Ancient Greek ἡμέρα ("day") Ἑρμοῦ, via an association of the god Odin (Woden) with Mercury and Hermes.
• Cognate with West Frisian woansdei ("Wednesday"), Dutch woensdag ("Wednesday"), Dutch Low Saxon woonsdag ("Wednesday"), dialectal German Wodenstag ("Wednesday"), Danish onsdag ("Wednesday"), Norwegian Bokmål onsdag ("Wednesday"), Swedish onsdag ("Wednesday").