adv
Meaning 1
On Sunday.
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Usage: Canada, US, informal, not-comparable
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adv
On Sunday.
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Usage: Canada, US, informal, not-comparable
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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; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.
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Synonyms: First Day, Lord's Day, Sun//Sun.
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noun
A newspaper published on Sunday.
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Usage: informal
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noun
A comic strip published in a Sunday newspaper.
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Usage: informal
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noun
Describes someone who does something occasionally or casually, and therefore without skill.
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Usage: attributive, informal
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noun
Describes something particularly fine and elegant, particularly something that could be worn to or used at church.
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Usage: attributive, informal
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verb
To spend Sunday (at a certain place, with a certain person or people, etc.).
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Usage: informal, intransitive
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noun
United States evangelist (1862-1935)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Billy Sunday, William Ashley Sunday
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Broader terms: evangelist, revivalist, gospeler, gospeller
noun
first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians
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Synonyms: Lord's Day, Dominicus, Sun
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Broader terms: rest day, day of rest
History
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.
Across languages
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