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Sunday
1[ suhn-dey, -dee ]
noun
- the first day of the week, observed as the Sabbath by most Christian sects.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Sunday.
- used, done, taking place, or being as indicated only on or as if on Sundays:
a Sunday matinée.
Sunday
2[ suhn-dey, -dee ]
noun
- William Ashley [ash, -lee], Billy Sunday, 1862–1935, U.S. evangelist.
- a female given name.
Sunday
/ -deɪ; ˈsʌndɪ /
noun
- the first day of the week and the Christian day of worship
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- Sunday·like adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Sunday1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Sunday1
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Idioms and Phrases
- a month of Sundays, an indeterminately great length of time:
She hadn't taken a vacation in a month of Sundays.
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Example Sentences
Congress is nearing a vote on the Keystone XL pipeline, and lawmakers made their cases for—and against—it Sunday.
That was accomplished by cops such as the one whose picture was clutched so tightly by his widow on Sunday.
Scott, who died Sunday at 49, could go from evoking a Baptist preacher to quoting Public Enemy.
When ‘Downton Abbey’ returns Sunday night, its fashion fans are in for a familiar treat.
Those who are not working on Sunday will almost certainly attend the funeral for Liu.
A little boy aged two years and four months was deprived of a pencil from Thursday to Sunday for scribbling on the wall-paper.
And sure enough when Sunday came, and the pencil was restored to him, he promptly showed nurse his picture.
The fact that the day following the punishment parade was a Sunday brought about a certain relaxation from discipline.
Hagley Road, on Sunday evenings, is particularly affected by some as their favourite promenade.
So, when Sunday night come, and he preached in the school-house, he had quite a bunch of punchers corralled there to hear him.
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