Mondays

How to spell mondays

7 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce mondays

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does mondays mean?

1. nounMore than one Monday, or Monday considered as a regularly recurring day of the week.

Mondays in a sentence

• The gym is always busiest on mondays after the weekend.

• She dreads mondays because the weekly status meeting runs long.

Where does mondays come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This is the plural of Monday, which comes from the Old English Mōnandæg, meaning literally 'day of the moon'. That compound joined mōna, the word for the moon, with dæg, meaning day, and it was a direct translation of the Latin dies lunae, 'day of the moon', which is why the Romance languages still show the moon in words like the French lundi. The names of the weekdays entered English in the Anglo-Saxon period as part of a system that paired Roman planetary gods with their Germanic equivalents. The plural form simply adds -s to mean 'every Monday' or 'more than one Monday', and the most common modern spelling trap is not the letters themselves but the mistaken apostrophe (writing monday's when no possession is meant). It keeps its capital M in normal writing because, like all weekday names in English, it is treated as a proper noun.

How the word is built

• Monan (Old English for 'of the moon')
• dæg ('day') -> Monday
• -s (plural)