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Definition: Wednesday |
WednesdayNoun1. The fourth day of the week; the third working day. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Wednesday" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Wednesday Woden-es or Odin-es Day, called by the French "Mercredi" (Mercury's Day). The Persians regard it as a "red-letter day," because the moon was created on the fourth day. (Genesis iv. 14-19.) But the last Wednesday of November is called "Black Wednesday." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. The astrological sign of the planet Mercury represents Wednesday, which was dies mercurii to the Romans. In English, this became Woden's Day, since the Roman god Mercury was identified with Woden in northern Europe.
When Sunday is taken as the first of the week, Wednesday is the day in the middle of the week; correspondingly the German word for Wednesday is Mittwoch (middle of the week). Also it is in the middle of a working week from Monday through Friday. However, see also Thursday and ISO 8601.
See also:
- Sunday
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wednesday."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| Wed. | English | Wednesday | Geography, Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: WednesdaySynonym: Wed (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | Rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days of the week; Sunday, Monday; months of the year; January; feast, fast; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day; Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide. |
Rite | Sabbath, Pentecost; Advent, Christmas, Epiphany; Lent; Passion week, Holy week; Easter, Easter Sunday, Whitsuntide; agape, Ascension Day, Candlemas, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Holy Thursday; Lammas, Martinmas, Michaelmas; All SAint's DAy, All Souls' Day |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wednesday |
| English words defined with "Wednesday": Ash Wednesday ♦ commination ♦ Derby Day ♦ Lent, Lententide ♦ Opetide ♦ Quinquagesima, Quinquagesima Sunday ♦ Shrove Tuesday, Spy Wednesday ♦ Tenebrae. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Wednesday": Colours for Church Decoration ♦ Days set apart as Sabbaths ♦ enumerated type ♦ Feasts ♦ Nabonassar ♦ Orthodox Sunday ♦ S.S. Collar ♦ virtual Friday. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Wednesday": ODIN. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Wednesday" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Pidgin English (Wednesday). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Wednesday is fish sticks (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) You screw me on Wednesday, you screw me on Friday (Heist; writing credit: David Mamet) If somebody was going to poke themselves in the eye every other Wednesday, would you f g mind doing it (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime García Estrada) Except next Wednesday at 3:30 (Hey Arnold!; writing credit: Luís Filipe Rocha) What is incurable today is curable next Wednesday. (Act of Murder, An; writing credit: Michael Blankfort; Ernst Lothar) | |
Lyrics | Wednesday morning papers didn't come (Lady Madonna; performing artist: The Beatles) Tuesday wednesday stay in bed (Friday I'm in Love; performing artist: The Cure) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ash Wednesday (1973) Any Wednesday (1966) The Wednesday Play (1964) Harlem Wednesday (1958) I Loved You Wednesday (1933) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Offshore from Wednesday Island. 64 56 S Latitude 63 35 W Longitude. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Receiving her 3"/50 main gun at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, March 1950. Photograph released 17 March 1950 by 14th Naval District PIO, with the following caption: "GUNS INSTALLED ON KOREAN PATROL CRAFT .... The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on Wednesday started placing guns on the vacant mounts of the Korean Naval Patrol Craft 'Bak Dusan'. Scheduled for installation on the craft is one 3" anti-aircraft gun and six .50 caliber machine guns. The work at the local shipyard was authorized by the Secretary of Defense. Shown above are shipyard workers placing the 3" gun on the mount while Korean Naval Officers watch the operation. The 'Bak Dusan' which arrived in the Islands from New York on January 24, is enroute to its homeland.". Credit: NAVY. |
 | The trial's next Wednesday. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The panic - scenes in Wall Street Wednesday morning, May 14 / drawn by Schell and Hogan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Coming! Aitken & Watson Mesmeric Co. will commence a series of entertainments in mesmerism! to be held in G.A.R. Hall, Attleboro, Mass. on Tuesday & Wednesday evenings, April 28 & 29, 1885. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wednesday, March 22, 1972, 7:30 P.M., Villa : discussion group : topic : the anatomy of conflicts / P.C.O. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Rangers v Man U" by Graham Dick Commentary: "Rangers versus Man Utd at Ibrox, Wednesday 22nd October." | "Bromelia Aechmea Morgana 2" by Tjeerd Doosje Commentary: "Somewhere in the polder where I live, there's a greenhouse where they cultivate orchids. Last Wednesday I visited that greenhouse and took some photo's. Thanks for having a look!." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The retreat will go on from Wednesday to Friday |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The normal Saudi workweek is Saturday through Wednesday. (references) | |
Human Rights | Slovak Republic | The Ministry of Justice has initiated a program in which free legal advice is offered in seven cities every Wednesday for 5 hours; however, a legal NGO has claimed that a more systematic approach is necessary. (references) |
Travel | Qatar | The U.S. Embassy hours are 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM, Saturday through Wednesday. (references) |
Uae | Government offices open Saturday through Wednesday and close at 1-2 p.m. for the day. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Yemen | The workweek for government employees is 35 hours: 7 hours per day from Saturday through Wednesday. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Robert Novak | As a Senate-House conference committee agreed on the final version of the bill, the market rallied sharply on Wednesday. |
Rush Limbaugh | Every year on this Wednesday before Thanksgiving, we regale you with the real story of this holiday. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | The budget I am submitting Wednesday cuts this rate of growth in half. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | On Wednesday, my request to sustain the freedom fighters will be submitted which reflects our mutual desire for peace, freedom, and democracy in Nicaragua. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Wednesday" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wednesday" is used about 4,401 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 4,401 | 2,224 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Wednesday": ash wednesday ♦ last wednesday ♦ next wednesday ♦ spy Wednesday. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Wednesday": wednesday-bound. | |
Ending with "Wednesday": Ash-wednesday. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Wednesday"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | woensdag. (various references) | |
Albanian | mërkurë (mid-week). (various references) | |
Arabic | يوم الأربعاء, الأربعاء. (various references) | |
Asturian | Miércoles. (various references) | |
Aymara | mirkulisa. (various references) | |
Basque | asteazkena. (various references) | |
Bemba | palicitatu. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | ííkaitaistssinao'p. (various references) | |
Breton | dimerc'her. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Сряда. (various references) | |
Catalan | dimecres. (various references) | |
Cebuano | Miyerkules. (various references) | |
Chamorro | Metkoles. (various references) | |
Chinese | 星期三 . (various references) | |
Cornish | dé-Mergher. (various references) | |
Croatian | srijeda. (various references) | |
Czech | středa. (various references) | |
Danish | onsdag. (various references) | |
Dutch | woensdag (Wed.). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | mircoles. (various references) | |
Esperanto | merkredo. (various references) | |
Estonian | kolmapäev. (various references) | |
Faeroese | mikudagur. (various references) | |
Farsi | هرچهارشنبه یکبار, چهارشنبه (Midweek). (various references) | |
Finnish | keskiviikko. (various references) | |
Flemish | woensdag. (various references) | |
French | mercredi. (various references) | |
French Canadian | mercredi. (various references) | |
Frisian | woansdei. (various references) | |
Galician | mércores. (various references) | |
German | Mittwoch. (various references) | |
Greek | Τετάρτη. (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | mèkredi. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | mërkurë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ֹום ״ביעי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szerda. (various references) | |
Icelandic | miðvikudagur. (various references) | |
Indonesian | hari rabu. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | Pingajuat. (various references) | |
Irish | céadaoin, an Chéadaoin. (various references) | |
Italian | mercoledì. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 水曜日 , 水曜日 , 水曜 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいようび, すいよう (weeping willow). (various references) | |
Kongo | Lumbu kia ntatu. (various references) | |
Korean | 수요일. (various references) | |
Lombard | mercoldì. (various references) | |
Luganda | lwakusatu. (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | mëttwoch. (various references) | |
Macedonian | sreda. (various references) | |
Malagasy | alarobia. (various references) | |
Malay | Rabu. (various references) | |
Manx | Jecrean, Curain, Crean. (various references) | |
Maori | Wenerei. (various references) | |
Mohawk | Ahsenhatont. (various references) | |
Norwegian | onsdag. (various references) | |
Papago | Mialklos. (various references) | |
Papiamen | djarason. (various references) | |
Pidgin English | wednesday. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ednesdayway.(various references) | |
Polish | środa. (various references) | |
Portuguese | Quarta-feira. (various references) | |
Provencal | dimèrcres. (various references) | |
Romanian | Miercuri (midweek). (various references) | |
Romany | tetràzi. (various references) | |
Ruanda | Kwagatatu. (various references) | |
Russian | среда (ambiance, ambience, environment, environs, habitat, medium, mid-week, milieu, surroundings), Среда. (various references) | |
Samoan | Aso Lulu. (various references) | |
Scottish | Di-ciadaoin, Di-ciadain, diciadain, Ciadaoin, Di-ciadaoin. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sreda. (various references) | |
Shona | Chitatu (third). (various references) | |
Slovene | sreda. (various references) | |
Somali | arbaca. (various references) | |
Sotho | laboraro. (various references) | |
Spanish | miércoles (midweek, wed). (various references) | |
Sranan | dride-wroko. (various references) | |
Swahili | Jumatano. (various references) | |
Swazi | Lésitsâtfu. (various references) | |
Swedish | onsdag. (various references) | |
Tagalog | miyerkoles, Miyérkules. (various references) | |
Tswana | laboraro. (various references) | |
Turkish | Çarşamba (Wed), çarxamba, çarşamba. (various references) | |
Turkmen | зarюenbe. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Середа. (various references) | |
Welsh | Dydd Mercher. (various references) | |
Wolof | àllarba. (various references) | |
Xhosa | ulwesithathu. (various references) | |
Zulu | uLwesithathu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Wednesday" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wednessday, wensday. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Wednesday" (pronounced 'Wednes"day'): Alday, Friday, Monday, Playday, Thursday, Tuesday, Workday. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-n-s-w-y" | |
-2 letters: deadens, deewans, endways. | |
-3 letters: dawned, deaden, deaned, dedans, deewan, desand, dewans, sadden, sanded, sawney, sended, snawed, swayed, sweeny, weaned, weensy, wended, yawned, yeaned. | |
-4 letters: aedes, awned, dandy, dawed, dawen, dawns, deads, deans, deeds, deedy, denes, dense, dewan, dewed, dyads, dynes, eased, ended, needs, needy, newsy, sandy, saned, sawed, sedan, seedy, sewan, sewed, swede. | |
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