thursday
NounUS[thurz-dey]/ˈθɝzˌdeɪ/2 syllablesalso [thurz-dee] /ˈθɝzdi/
Synonyms:
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Translations
Noun fourth day of the week
- Spanish
- jueves
- French
- jeudi
- German
- Donnerstag
- Italian
- giovedì
- Portuguese
- quinta-feira
- Turkish
- perşembe
- Russian
- четве́рг četvérg
- Arabic
- الخميس al-ḵamīs
- Chinese
- 星期四 xīngqīsì
- Japanese
- 木曜日 mokuyōbi
36 more languages
- Dutch
- donderdag
- Polish
- czwartek
- Swedish
- torsdag
- Greek
- Πέμπτη Pémpti
- Korean
- 목요일 mogyoil
- Indonesian
- Kamis
- Vietnamese
- thứ năm
- Hungarian
- csütörtök
- Portuguese (PT)
- quinta-feira
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 星期四 xīngqīsì
- Albanian
- e enjte
- Breton
- Yaou
- Catalan
- dijous
- Corsican
- ghjovi
- Czech
- čtvrtek
- Danish
- torsdag
- Esperanto
- ĵaŭdo
- Estonian
- neljapäev
- Finnish
- torstai
- Georgian
- ხუთშაბათი xutšabati
- Hebrew
- יום חמישי yom chamishi
- Icelandic
- fimmtudagur
- Kurdish
- pêncşem
- Latvian
- ceturtdiena
- Lithuanian
- ketvirtadienis
- Malagasy
- alakamisy
- Norwegian
- torsdag
- Romanian
- joi
- Scottish Gaelic
- Diardaoin
- Serbo-Croatian
- četvrtak
- Slovak
- štvrtok
- Slovenian
- četrtek
- Swahili
- Alhamisi
- Walloon
- djudi
- Welsh
- dydd Iau
- Yiddish
- דאָנערשטיק donershtik
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Thurs′day noun
Origin: OE. þursdei, þorsday, from the Scand. name Thor + E. day. Icel. þōrr Thor, the god of thunder, is akin to AS. þunor thunder; D. Donderdag Thursday, G. Donnerstag, Icel. þōrsdagr, Sw. & Dan. Torsdag. √52. See Thor, Thunder, and Day.
The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday.
Holy Thursday. See under Holy.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54