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Saturday

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Etymology

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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).

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Noun

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Saturday (plural Saturdays)

  1. 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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  • Tok Pisin: Sarere

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Adverb

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Saturday (not comparable)

  1. (US, Canada, informal in UK) On Saturday.

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Verb

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Saturday (third-person singular simple present Saturdays, present participle Saturdaying, simple past and past participle Saturdayed)

  1. (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

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Middle English

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Noun

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Saturday

  1. alternative form of Saterday