Sundays

How to spell sundays

7 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce sundays

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does sundays mean?

1. nounMore than one occurrence of Sunday, the day of the week between Saturday and Monday.

Sundays in a sentence

• The shop stays closed on sundays throughout the winter.

• She spends most sundays visiting her parents in the countryside.

Where does sundays come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This is the plural of Sunday, which comes from the Old English Sunnandæg, literally meaning 'day of the sun'. That phrase was itself a translation of the Latin dies solis, the Romans' own name for the same day, reflecting an ancient practice across Europe of naming the days after heavenly bodies and gods. The first element, sunne, simply meant the sun, while dæg gave us the modern word 'day'. English has kept the connection visible in the spelling, so the trap is rarely the letters themselves: most slips happen when writers add an apostrophe and write the possessive 'Sunday's' when only the plain plural is meant. Knowing it is two clear pieces, sun plus day, plus a simple -s, keeps the spelling straightforward.

How the word is built

• sun (the star)
• day (from dæg)
• -s (plural)