Saturday
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: săʹtər-dā, săʹtər-di
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsætədeɪ/, /ˈsætədi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsætəɹdeɪ/, [ˈsæɾɚdeɪ̯], /ˈsætəɹdi/, [ˈsæɾɚdi]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsætədæɪ/
- (Singapore) IPA(key): /ˈsɑːtədeɪ/, /ˈsæ-/
- Rhymes: -ætədeɪ, -ætədi, -ætəɹdeɪ
- Hyphenation: Sat‧ur‧day
Noun
[edit]Saturday (plural 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.
- Synonym: (Quakerism) Seventh Day
- 2023 April 27, Laura He, “China may have to bail out one of its poorest provinces”, in CNN Business[1]:
- 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.
- 2025 February 1, Kevin Liptak, “With stiff tariffs he promised now in place, Trump opens a new trade war”, in CNN[2]:
- Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday.
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[edit]- Tok Pisin: Sarere
Translations
[edit]day of the week
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Adverb
[edit]Saturday (not comparable)
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[edit]on Saturday
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Verb
[edit]Saturday (third-person singular simple present Saturdays, present participle Saturdaying, simple past and past participle Saturdayed)
- (uncommon, creative) To spend Saturday (at a place or doing an activity).
- 1913, Bell Telephone News[3], volume 3, page 5:
- Mr. Angus Hibbard, of New York, Fridayed and Saturdayed in Chicago, for the show and banquet.
See also
[edit]- days of the week (appendix): Sunday · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday [edit]
Middle English
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[edit]Saturday
- alternative form of Saterday
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