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THURSDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Thursday mean? 

THURSDAY (noun)
  The noun THURSDAY has 1 sense:

1. the fifth day of the week; the fourth working dayplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


THURSDAY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The fifth day of the week; the fourth working day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Th; Thursday

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

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


 Context examples 


I went on:—I suppose this upset him, for when we were in town on Thursday last he had a sort of shock.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They reached Mansfield on Thursday, and it was not till Sunday evening that Edmund began to talk to her on the subject.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Thursday, Joe was in a rage.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Indeed he is—in three days, he says: that will be next Thursday; and not alone either.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was quite unkind of you not to come on Thursday.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The Thursday brought us another letter from our client.

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

Last Thursday (May 7th), I, my niece, and your two brothers, went to walk in Plainpalais.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Willoughby!" cried Sir John; "what, is HE in the country? That is good news however; I will ride over tomorrow, and ask him to dinner on Thursday."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This will be a Thursday, so see if you can both meet after work.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"I've got my new pink silk for Thursday and don't want a thing."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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