Sunday
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See also: sunday
Etymology
From Middle English Sonday, from Old English sunnandæġ (“day of the sun”), from sunne (“sun”), + dæġ (“day”), 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 C.E..
Compare Saterland Frisian Sundai (“Sunday”), German Low German Sünndag, Dutch zondag, West Frisian snein, German Sonntag, Danish søndag.
Pronunciation
Noun
Sunday (plural Sundays)
- 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.
- 1988, Morrissey (lyrics and music), “Everyday Is Like Sunday”, in Viva Hate:
- Every day is like Sunday / Every day is silent and grey
- (informal) A newspaper published on Sunday.
- 1974, John le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy:
- I gave him the switchboard with my love, went down to the Savoy for breakfast and read the Sundays.
- (informal) A comic strip published in a Sunday newspaper.
- 2017, Mark Arnold, Pocket Full of Dennis the Menace:
- It just wasn't his thing, although he did beautiful Sundays for however long he did them. So as soon as he could, he hired someone to do the Sundays. Karen and I would do some dailies, but we were the Sunday artists.
- (informal, attributive) Describes someone who does something occasionally or casually, and therefore without skill.
- 2010 November 9, Rosemary Wells, On the Blue Comet, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 113:
- Your face is the color of a Sunday swimmer who swallowed half the pool.
- 2010 March 30, Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts, Random House, →ISBN, page 51:
- My limbs felt hollow, empty. Empty, empty, empty. A Sunday cyclist on a casual ride could have passed me.
- 2010 December 15, Peter Everett, Matisse's War, Random House, →ISBN:
- Below, a Sunday painter dabs at a canvas near the Pont Neuf, his suit as natty as any Landru wore. He tilts his bowler hat and steps back to view his efforts. 'What is a Sunday painter?' Matisse says aloud. 'When we start, we are all Sunday painters.'
- 2016 January 18, Renars Sidrabs, Memoirs of a Drunk, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
- If he even tries it, then his addiction will take over again. An alcoholic can never become a “Sunday drinker”.
Synonyms
Symbols
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- 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
- Hall' Sunday
- Hospital Sunday
- Jerusalem 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
- Rorate 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
Derived terms
- Flowering Sunday
- month of Sundays
- never in a month of Sundays
- Renewal Sunday
- Rogate Sunday
- Second Sunday of Easter
- St. Thomas Sunday
- sundae
- Sunday baby
- Sunday best
- Sunday child
- Sunday Christian
- Sunday church
- Sunday closing law
- Sunday clothes
- Sunday comics
- Sunday dinner
- Sunday driver
- Sundayed
- Sunday face
- Sundayfied
- Sunday funnies
- Sunday-going
- Sunday-go-to-meeting
- Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
- Sunday gravy
- Sunday in Sexagesima
- Sundayish
- Sundayism
- Sunday joint
- Sunday law
- Sunday letter
- Sunday lunch
- Sundayly
- Sunday man
- Sunday motorist
- Sunday observance
- Sunday out
- Sunday painter
- Sunday paper
- Sunday punch
- Sunday roast
- Sundays (adverb)
- Sunday saint
- Sunday salt
- Sunday's best
- Sunday scaries
- Sunday's child
- Sunday school
- Sunday's daughter
- Sunday shopping
- Sunday strip
- Sunday supplement
- Sunday throat
- Sunday trading
- Sunday Trading Act
- Sunday within the Octave of Christmas
- Thomas Sunday
- Wentsunday
- what wins on Sunday sells on Monday
- when two Sundays come together
- when two Sundays meet
- Whitsunday
Descendants
Translations
day of the week
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newspaper
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Verb
Sunday (third-person singular simple present Sundays, present participle Sundaying, simple past and past participle Sundayed)
- To spend Sunday (at a certain place, with a certain person or people, etc.).
- 1910, Arthur B. Reeve, The Silent Bullet, section III:
- I waded through accounts of new calves and colts, new fences and barns, who “Sundayed” with his brother, etc., and soon had a list of all the cases in that part of the country.
- 1944, Emily Carr, “Kipling”, in The House of All Sorts:
- The dogs and I were Sundaying on the garden lawn.
- 2016, Brian Finnegan, “Your Sunday Best,” in totallydublin.ie,
- When we’re Sundaying in the city, I like nothing better than to roll out of bed and head straight for Noshington on the corner of South Circular Road and Washington Street, for one of their hugely satisfying weekend brunch options.
Adverb
Sunday (not comparable)
Translations
on Sunday
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See also
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