Definitions for Saturday
ˈsæt ərˌdeɪ, -diSat·ur·day

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Saturday, Sabbatum, Satnoun

   the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians

Wiktionary(3.56 / 9 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Saturdaynoun

   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 Biblical seventh day of the week, observed as Sabbath or "Day of Rest"; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.

2. Saturdayadverb

   on Saturday

3. Etymology: sæterndæg, from Sætern, from Saturnus, possibly from Etruscan, + dæg; a translation of dies Saturni

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Saturdaynoun

   The last day of the week.

   Etymology: sætersdæg , or sæternsdæg , Saxon, according to Richard Verstegan, from sæter , a Saxon idol; more probably from Saturn, dies Saturni.

   This matter I handled fully in last Saturday ’s Spectator. Add.

Wikipedia(4.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Saturday

   Saturday is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday. The Romans named Saturday Sāturni diēs ("Saturn's Day") no later than the 2nd century for the planet Saturn, which controlled the first hour of that day, according to Vettius Valens. The day's name was introduced into West Germanic languages and is recorded in the Low German languages such as Middle Low German sater(s)dach, Middle Dutch saterdag (Modern Dutch zaterdag) and Old English Sætern(es)dæġ and Sæterdæġ. The day was also referred to as "Sæternes dæġe" in an Old English translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. In Old English, Saturday was also known as sunnanæfen ("sun" + "eve" cf. dialectal German Sonnabend).

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Saturdaynoun

   the seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday

2. Etymology: [OE. Saterday, AS. Saeterdaeg, Saeterndaeg, Saeternesdaeg, literally, Saturn's day, fr. L. Saturnus Saturn + AS. daeg day; cf. L. dies Saturni.]

Freebase(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Saturday

   Saturday is the day of the week following Friday and preceding Sunday. Saturday is the seventh and therefore last day of the week according to many commonly used calendars, but it is the second-to-last day of the week according to ISO 8601. Its Latin name dies Saturni entered into Old English as Saeternesdaeg. Saturday was named no later than the 2nd century for the planet Saturn, which controlled the first hour of that day according to Vettius Valens. Prior to that, the old English name was sunnanæfen.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Saturday

   sat′ur-dā, n. the seventh or last day of the week, dedicated by the Romans to Saturn: the Jewish Sabbath. [A.S. Sæter-dæg, Sætern-dæg, day of Saturn—L. Saturnus.]

Editors Contribution(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Saturday

   A day of the week.

   Saturday is the day as a family we spend doing different things with our friends and Sunday is when we all get together.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 23, 2016  

Etymology and Origins(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Saturday

   This, the seventh day of the week, was dedicated by the Romans to Saturn. As, however, all the other week-days were named by the people of Northern Europe in accordance with Scandinavian mythology, one must incline to the opinion that this was named after Sæter, a water deity. Its Anglo-Saxon designation was Sæterdæg.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Saturday' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1456

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Saturday' in Written Corpus Frequency: #588

How to pronounce Saturday?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Saturday in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Saturday in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Saturday in a Sentence

1. Hillary Clinton:

   We are on the path to the nomination and I want Washington to be part of how we get there, ...It’s important to show up at this caucus on Saturday.

2. Thomas Bach:

   The Olympic Games cannot be moved like a football game next Saturday, it is a complex undertaking and you can only act responsibly when you have a clear decision-making foundation.

3. Sarah Silverman:

   I remember thinking I want to move home to New Hampshire. ... You just want to go home, and you don't want to do anything scary. And then I found a woman who put me on a pill called Klonopin that all it does is block panic attacks. And that really saved my life in that I was able to go to work at' Saturday Night Live' and exist through each day while I was figuring this out.

4. Nataliya Yezersky:

   The main message that we hope viewerswill get from our performanceis the following: It's time for all of us to launch our culturally informative counteraction against Russian propaganda, during the wartime, if the chance presents itself to spread the truth about who is who and what is what, no one should remain indifferentbut act immediately.It's exactly what Dumka did last Saturday.

5. Sir William Bragg:

   God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

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