English Explanatory Dictionary

Sunday

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. A newspaper published on Sunday.
  3. A comic strip published in a Sunday newspaper.
  4. Describes someone who does something occasionally or casually, and therefore without skill.
  5. Describes something particularly fine and elegant, particularly something that could be worn to or used at church.
verb
  1. To spend Sunday (at a certain place, with a certain person or people, etc.).
adv
  1. On Sunday.

Pronunciation

sŭnʹdā sŭnʹdē /ˈsʌn.deɪ/ /ˈsʌn.di/ En-uk-Sunday.ogg en-us-Sunday.ogg /ˈsʊn.deɪ/ /ˈsʊn.də/

Word forms

Sunday Sundays Sundaying Sundayed

Etymology

From Middle English Sonday, from Old English sunnandæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *Sunnōn dag (literally “day of the Sun”), equivalent to sun + day, as a calque (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.

Synonyms

First Day Sun Sun. the Lord's day

Derived words

any given Sunday month of Sundays never in a month of Sundays Smonday sundae Sundaily Sunday baby Sunday beer Sunday best Sunday child Sunday Christian Sunday church Sunday closing law Sunday clothes Sunday comics Sunday Creek 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 Sundaylike Sunday lunch Sundayly Sunday man Sunday motorist Sundayness Sunday observance Sunday out Sunday painter Sunday paper Sunday punch Sunday roast Sundays 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 week of Sundays
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on S Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary