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What does Monday mean?

Definitions for Monday
ˈmʌn deɪ, -dimon·day

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Monday, Monnoun

    the second day of the week; the first working day

Wiktionary

  1. Mondaynoun

    The first day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm and second day of the week in many religious traditions. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.

  2. Mondayadverb

    on Monday

  3. Etymology: * monandæg, from mona + dæg, a translation of dies lunae

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Mondaynoun

    The second day of the week.

    Etymology: from moon and day.

Wikipedia

  1. Monday

    Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. According to the international standard ISO 8601 it is the first day of the week. In countries that adopt the "Sunday-first" convention, it is the second day of the week. The name of Monday is derived from Old English Mōnandæg and Middle English Monenday, originally a translation of Latin dies lunae "day of the Moon".

ChatGPT

  1. Monday

    Monday is the first day of the week, typically following Sunday, in a standard Gregorian calendar. It is considered a working day for most people and often seen as the start of the workweek.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mondaynoun

    the second day of the week; the day following Sunday

  2. Etymology: [OE. moneday, monenday, AS. mnandaeg, i.e., day of the moon, day sacred to the moon; akin to D. maandag, G. montag, OHG. mnatag, Icel. mnadagr, Dan. mandag, Sw. mndag. See Moon, and Day.]

Wikidata

  1. Monday

    Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. According to the Christian, Islamic and Hebrew calendars, it is the second day of the week. But according to international standard ISO 8601 it is the first day of the week. The name of Monday is derived from Old English Mōnandæg and Middle English Monenday, which means "moon day".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Monday

    mun′dā, n. the second day of the week.—adj. Mon′dayish, fagged—of preachers, after their Sunday exercitations.—Black Monday, Easter Monday, the 14th of April 1360: any Easter Monday; Handsel Monday, the first Monday of the year, when presents are given. [A.S. mónandæg, mónan, gen. of móna, moon, dæg, day.]

Editors Contribution

  1. monday

    A day of the week.

    Monday is the first day of the week in some countries.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 19, 2020  

Etymology and Origins

  1. Monday

    A term derived from Scandinavian mythology when, after the first day of the week given up to sun-worship, the second was set apart for the worship of the moon.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MONDAY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Monday is ranked #6336 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Monday surname appeared 5,379 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Monday.

    81.1% or 4,365 total occurrences were White.
    11.7% or 630 total occurrences were Black.
    2.9% or 158 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2% or 112 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.1% or 59 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    1% or 55 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Monday' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2514

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Monday' in Written Corpus Frequency: #649

Anagrams for Monday »

  1. dynamo

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Monday in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Monday in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Monday in a Sentence

  1. Piraeus Bank Bulgaria:

    For us, this Monday is a normal working day.

  2. Matt Johnson:

    Things usually happen pretty quick in the world of flybys, and we have two back-to-back next week. So literally every second counts, on Monday, we are going to race past Ganymede at almost 12 miles per second( 19 kilometers per second). Less than 24 hours later we're performing our 33rd science pass of Jupiter -- screaming low over the cloud tops, at about 36 miles per second( 58 kilometers per second). It is going to be a wild ride.

  3. Jaret Seiberg:

    We are unsurprised the FDIC retained loans as we would expect banks to be cautious on quickly buying loans without liability and loss protections, more broadly, we see it as positive for consumer confidence for the branches to be opening Monday as NYCB branches.

  4. Christopher Yaluma:

    In view of this development, I wish to declare the resumption of the issuance, renewal and transfer of mining rights and non-mining rights with effect from Monday.

  5. Tedros Adhanom:

    As early as Monday we'll start.

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