Saturday
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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
- 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
- On Saturday.
verb Saturdays · Saturdaying · Saturdayed
- 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.
