Sunday
nounThe first day of the week in many calendars, following Saturday and traditionally a day of rest.
How to spell sunday
6 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce sunday
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does sunday mean?
- nounThe first day of the week in many calendars, following Saturday and traditionally a day of rest.
Sunday in a sentence
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The shop opens later on sunday than on weekdays.
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They always cook a roast dinner on sunday.
Where does sunday come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
This word comes from the Old English Sunnandæg, which literally meant 'the day of the sun', built from sunne (the sun) and dæg (day). The Old English name was a direct translation of the Latin dies solis, 'day of the sun', a label the Romans used in their planetary week. The Germanic peoples adopted this same idea, which is why related forms appear in other Germanic languages, such as the Dutch zondag and the German Sonntag. The word has been part of English since before written records, and the spelling has barely shifted over the centuries beyond losing its older inflected endings. The trap for spellers is that, despite being pronounced with an unstressed second syllable, it ends in plain 'day' rather than 'dy', and it always takes a capital letter as the name of a day.
How the word is built
- sun (the sun)
- day (day), from Old English Sunnandæg, the day of the sun
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