Friday (English, noun)
Pronunciation: tags: Received-Pronunciation
enpr: frīʹdā
tags: Received-Pronunciation
enpr: frīʹdē
ipa: /ˈfɹaɪdeɪ/
tags: Received-Pronunciation
ipa: /-di/
tags: Received-Pronunciation
tags: General-American
ipa: /ˈfɹaɪˌdeɪ/
tags: General-American
ipa: /-ˌdi/
rhymes: -aɪdeɪ
rhymes: -aɪdi
Etymology: From Middle English Friday, from Old English frīġedæġ. Compound of Frīġ and dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frījā dag, a calque of Latin diēs Veneris, via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess of love Venus.
Compare West Frisian freed, German Low German Freedag, Friedag, Dutch vrijdag, German Freitag, Danish fredag.
Old Norse Frigg (genitive Friggjar), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frīġ are derived from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō. Frigg is cognate with Sanskrit प्रिया (priyā́, “wife”). The root also appears in Old Saxon fri (“beloved lady”); in Swedish fria, in Danish and Norwegian as fri (“to propose for marriage”); a related meaning exists in Icelandic as frjá (“to love”) and similarly in Dutch vrijen (“to make love (to have sex)”).
Compare Japanese 金曜日.
Definitions: examples: text: For a micromoon and Friday the 13th full moon to occur together is extraordinarily rare. The last time it happened was in 1832 and it won't happen again for more than 500 years according to Tony Rice, a meteorologist and engineer at NASA.
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text: Their mindset is the grindset, and they love the grind. I used to have a sales manager who didn't think this way. On Fridays, he'd always say, “Happy Friday.” A lot of people feel that way, but I never liked that phrase because it[…]
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glosses: The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Muslim Sabbath; it follows Thursday and precedes Saturday.
examples: text: Tomorrow's Thursday, but I have Friday and Saturday off, so really it's my Friday.
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glosses: The last workday in a work schedule that is not Monday through Friday.
tags: colloquial
raw_tags: with possessive
Forms: form: Fridays
tags: plural
Synonyms: word: Fri
tags: abbreviation
word: Fri.
Hypernyms: day
Hyponyms: Black Friday
Bloody Friday
casual Friday
dress-down Friday
expiration Friday
First Friday
gal Friday
girl Friday
Girl Friday
Golden Friday
Good Friday
Great and Holy Friday
Great Friday
guy Friday
Hollywood Black Friday
Holy Friday
Long Friday
man Friday
Man Friday
Marlboro Friday
next sitting Friday
person Friday
Red Friday
thank God it's Friday
thank goodness it's Friday
virtual Friday
Derived terms: word: Black Friday
word: Friday-face
word: Friday-faced
word: Friday-fare
word: Friday-feat
english: from the surname
word: Friday Harbor
word: Fridayish
word: Fridayitis
word: Friday-look
word: Fridays
word: that'll be the frosty Friday
word: virtual Friday
Related terms: Friday afternoon car
Friday car
Friday Eve
Friday fast
Friday hat
Friday Mosque
Friday night death slot
Friday Prayer
Friday the thirteenth
Friday tree
when two Fridays come together