Definition of Friday

1. Noun. The sixth day of the week; the fifth working day.

Exact synonyms: Fri
Generic synonyms: Weekday

Definition of Friday

1. n. The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.

Definition of Friday

1. Noun. The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Biblical sixth day of a week, the day before the Sabbath, or "day of preparation" in preparation for the Sabbath; the Islamic sabbath; it follows Thursday and precedes Saturday. ¹

2. Adverb. on Friday ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Friday

Freund's anomaly
Freund's complete adjuvant
Freund's incomplete adjuvant
Freund's operation
Frey
Frey's hairs
Frey's syndrome
Frey effect
Freya
Freyja
Freyr
Fri
Fribourg
Frida
Friday
Friday the thirteenth
Fridays
Fridenberg's stigometric card test
Friderichsen-Waterhouse syndrome
Fridrich method
Fridtjof Nansen
Frieda
Friedan
Friedel-Crafts reaction
Friedlander's bacillus
Friedlander's bacillus pneumonia
Friedlander's pneumonia
Friedlander's stain
Friedman

Literary usage of Friday

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"From the earliest times the Christians kept every friday as a fast day (Duchesne, 22S) and every Sunday as a feast day (Duchesne, 47); and the obvious ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"In the Roman Catholic Church Good friday is not a holiday, and therefore the ... The liturgical name of Good friday, especially among the Latins, ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"A telegram, "If can get peanuts out by friday, ship ; answer," and response, "Order confirmed; will ship by friday night of this week," to which no reply ..."

4. American Jewish Year Book by American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society of America (1907)
"Coat Front and Shoulder Pad Makers Union, 96 Clinton; friday. Children's Jacket Makers Union ... Fur Band and Trimming Makers Union, 145 Suffolk ; friday. ..."

5. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Peter Augustin Daniel (1874)
"TO JUNE, 187.5, AT 8 PM friday, October 9. The Polities of Shakspere's Historical ... friday, December 11. I. On Hamlet's inserted Speech of " a dozen or ..."

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