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Definition of Sunday

1. Noun. First day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians.

Definition of Sunday

1. n. The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day.

2. a. Belonging to the Christian Sabbath.

Definition of Sunday

1. Noun. The seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard, or the first day of the week in many religious traditions. The Sabbath for most Christians; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday. ¹

2. Adverb. On Sunday ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Sunday

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The American Sunday School Union is the outgrowth of the Sunday and Adult School Union, established in Philadelphia in 1817. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The new and broader organization took definite form 24 May 1824. On the 75th anniversary, the American Sunday School Union had 100928 Sunday schools with a ..."

3. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1905)
"The Sunday- school is only one of many teams by which the library gets free rides ... The Sunday school is one of the places where they are; and the Public ..."

4. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1907)
"Pending the establishment by this association of a bureau of adequate and definite information as to Sunday-school progress — a bureau whose operation would ..."

5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"Lit Digest 51:713 O 2 '15 ' In the light of Billy Sunday. W: T. Ellis. ... Cur Opinion 58:187-8 Mr '15 Sunday Two methods of conversion. ..."

6. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1903)
"324, 330, 332, 340 Address: Lesson-Helps and Text- Books for the Sunday School, 200 Scriptures, Misinterpretation of the, 26 Service for Others, ..."

7. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"R. Blodgett. il House Cur Opinion 63:327 N '17 Sunday, William Ashley (Billy Sunday) 1863- Ahead of Billy Sunday. Outlook 115:351-2 F 28 '17 Billy Sunday ..."

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