Sunday
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Sunday/ˈsʌndeɪ/
▶noun the day of the week before Monday and following Saturday, observed by Christians as a day of rest and religious worship. ▶adverb chiefly N. Amer. on Sunday.
■ (Sundays) on Sundays; each Sunday.
– origin OE Sunnandæg ‘day of the sun’, translation of L. dies solis.
'Sunday' also found in these Oxford entries:
Advent Sunday
- Armistice Day
- blue law
- Corpus Christi
- daily
- day of rest
- dominical
- dominical letter
- Easter
- Easter Day
- Father's Day
- Good Friday
- Holy Saturday
- lord
- Low Sunday
- Low Week
- Monday
- Mothering Sunday
- Mother's Day
- Palm Sunday
- Passion Sunday
- Passion Week
- Pentecost
- Poppy Day
- Quadragesima
- Quinquagesima
- Remembrance Day
- Remembrance Sunday
- Rogation Sunday
- sabbath
- Salve Regina
- Saturday
- Septuagesima
- Sexagesima
- Sun.
- sundae
- Sunday best
- Sunday driver
- Sunday painter
- Sunday school
- Trinity Sunday
- week
- weekday
- weekend
- Whitsun
- Whit Sunday
- Whitsuntide
