SATURDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saturday mean? 

• SATURDAY (noun)
  The noun SATURDAY has 1 sense:

1. the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians

  Familiarity information: SATURDAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SATURDAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Sabbatum; Sat; Saturday

Hypernyms ("Saturday" is a kind of...):

weekday (any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday))

Holonyms ("Saturday" is a part of...):

weekend (a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday)

 Context examples 

I have been returned since Saturday.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

However, all my troubles will be over on Saturday.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We leave Bath, as she has perhaps told you, on Saturday se'nnight.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It was Saturday morning, and I went straight to the Commons.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They told me—that Mr. Martin dined with them last Saturday.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"Mamma always allows us to do what we like Saturday afternoon, when Franz and Emil come, doesn't she, Mr. Bhaer?" said Minnie.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But Saturday afternoon, after work was finished and he had taken a bath, the desire to forget overpowered him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They shut at twelve on Saturdays.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was always to have gone on Saturday, and to Saturday he meant to stay.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But to-day being Saturday rather complicates matters.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)