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Saturday

  • /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/ UK
  • /ˈsæt.ə.di/ UK
  • /ˈsæt.ə.də/ Northumbria
  • /ˈsæt.ɚ.deɪ/ US
  • [ˈsæɾ.ɚ.deɪ̯] US
  • /ˈsæt.ɚ.di/ US
  • [ˈsæɾ.ɚ.di] US
  • /ˈsæt.ə.dæɪ/ Australia
  • /ˈsɑːt.ə.deɪ/ Singapore
  • /ˈsæ-/ Singapore

Rhymes with -ætədeɪ, -ætədi, -ætəɹdeɪ

Where it comes from

From Middle English Saterday, from Old English sæterdæġ, earlier sæternesdæġ (“Saterday”, literally “Saturn's day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī, equivalent to Saturn + day. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”).

noun Saturdays

  1. The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday. The Beijing-based firm — one of four funds created by the Chinese government in 1999 to process the bad loans of state-owned banks — announced Saturday that it would send a group of 50 experts to the province to help it “prevent and defuse risks” and “bail out” the real estate industry.

adverb

  1. Canada, US, informal, not comparable On Saturday.

verb Saturdays · Saturdaying · Saturdayed

  1. uncommon To spend Saturday (at a place or doing an activity). Mr. Angus Hibbard, of New York, Fridayed and Saturdayed in Chicago, for the show and banquet.

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