sunday
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)sundays
- first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most ChristiansSynonyms: Lord's DayDominicusSunType of rest day, day of restKinds fundayPart of weekend
- United States evangelist (1862-1935)Synonyms: Billy SundayWilliam Ashley SundayInstance of evangelist, revivalist
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Translations
Noun seventh day of the week
- Spanish
- domingo
- French
- dimanche
- German
- Sonntag
- Italian
- domenica
- Portuguese
- domingo
- Turkish
- pazar
- Russian
- воскресе́нье voskresénʹje
- Arabic
- الأحد al-ʔaḥad
- Chinese
- 星期日 xīngqīrì
- Japanese
- 日曜日 nichiyōbi
36 more languages
- Dutch
- zondag
- Polish
- niedziela
- Swedish
- söndag
- Greek
- Κυριακή Kyriakí
- Korean
- 일요일 iryoil
- Indonesian
- Minggu
- Vietnamese
- chủ nhật
- Hungarian
- vasárnap
- Portuguese (PT)
- domingo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 星期日 xīngqīrì
- Albanian
- e diel
- Breton
- Sul
- Catalan
- diumenge
- Corsican
- dumenica
- Czech
- neděle
- Danish
- søndag
- Esperanto
- dimanĉo
- Estonian
- pühapäev
- Finnish
- sunnuntai
- Georgian
- კვირა ḳvira
- Hebrew
- יום ראשון yom rishon
- Icelandic
- sunnudagur
- Kurdish
- yekşem
- Latvian
- svētdiena
- Lithuanian
- sekmadienis
- Malagasy
- alahady
- Norwegian
- søndag
- Romanian
- duminică
- Scottish Gaelic
- Didòmhnaich
- Serbo-Croatian
- nedjelja
- Slovak
- nedeľa
- Slovenian
- nedelja
- Swahili
- Jumapili
- Walloon
- dimegne
- Welsh
- dydd Sul
- Yiddish
- זונטיק zuntik
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: AS. sunnandaeg; sunne, gen. sunnan, the sun + daeg day; akin to D. zondag, G. sonntag; — so called because this day was anciently dedicated to the sun, or to its worship. See Sun, and Day.
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.
Advent Sunday, Low Sunday, Passion Sunday, etc. See under Advent, Low, etc.
Synonyms: See Sabbath.
Belonging to the Christian Sabbath.
Sunday letter. See Dominical letter, under Dominical. — Sunday school. See under School.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54