Tuesdays

How to spell tuesdays

8 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce tuesdays

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does tuesdays mean?

1. nounThe plural of Tuesday, the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday.
2. adverbOn Tuesday each week; every Tuesday as a habit.

Tuesdays in a sentence

• noun

  The last three tuesdays have all been public holidays.

• adverb

  The local market opens tuesdays and the stalls fill the square.

• noun

  Our team holds its budget review on alternate tuesdays.

• adverb

  He works from home tuesdays to avoid the long commute.

Where does tuesdays come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This word goes back to the Old English Tiwesdæg, which literally meant 'the day of Tiw'. Tiw (also spelled Tiu or Tyr) was the Germanic and Norse god associated with war and the sky, and the day was named after him as a direct copy of the Latin dies Martis, 'the day of Mars', the Roman war god. The naming followed a pattern across the week in which Germanic peoples matched their own gods to the Roman planetary deities, so Tiw stood in for Mars. The middle 'e' that survives in the modern spelling is the worn-down remnant of the old possessive 'Tiwes', meaning 'of Tiw', which is exactly the spot where modern writers tend to stumble. The plural simply adds an -s to refer to the recurring day, and capitalisation is the only real change from earlier English forms.

How the word is built

• Tues- (from Tiw, the Germanic god of war and the sky)
• day
• -s (plural)