friday

CEFRA1

/ˈfɹaɪ.deɪ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The day of the week after Thursday and before Saturday.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    On Friday.

Examples

  • Can you let me have the finished artwork for the poster by Friday?

  • I suggest that we go out on Friday.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

  1. The last workday in a work schedule that is not Monday through Friday.

More examples

In context

  • I'm tied up with a project that is due Friday.

  • Tomorrow's Thursday, but I have Friday and Saturday off, so really it's my Friday.

  • 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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Origin

noun

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. See also friend. 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 rela...