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Definition: Friday |
FridayNoun1. The sixth day of the week; the fifth working day. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Friday" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Friday is the Mahometan Sabbath. It was the day on which Adam was created and our Lord was crucified. The Sabeans consecrate it to Venus or Astarte. (See Frea.) Friday is Frig-daeg = dies Verneris, called in French Vendredi, which means the same thing. It was regarded by the Scandinavians as the luckiest day of the week. (See below, Friday, Unlucky. Friday. Fairies and all the tribes of elves of every description, according to mediæval romance, are converted into hideous animals on Friday, and remain so till Monday. (See the romance of Guerino Meschino, and others.) Black Friday. (See Black.) Long Friday, Good Friday, long being a synonym of great. Thus Mrs. Quickly says, "'Tis a long loan for a poor lone woman to bear" (2 Henry IV. ii. 1), and the Scotch proverb, "Between you and the long day" - i.e. the great or judgment day. Good Friday in Danish is Langfiedag, and in Swedish Längfredag. Friday A man Friday. A faithful and submissive attendant, ready to turn his hand to anything. My man Friday. The young savage found by Robinson Crusoe on a Friday, and kept as his servant and companion on the desert island. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Noun. Source: Came about when a secret word was needed to talk about future plans around parents and others. Definition: Friday is a slang way of asking another member in the group if they were going to sneak out tonight. Context: You would ask "Is it Friday?" no matter what day of the week it was, when you were around parents or other posible people of authority, to find out if the group wanted to sneak out that night. Yes=Yes No=No. Social Source: Warhammer Jils. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Friday is the day of the week between Thursday and Saturday. Its name is derived from the Saxon god Freyja, whose Norse equivalent is Freyr.
In most areas with a five-day working week, Friday is the last workday before the weekend and is therefore viewed as a cause for celebration or relief, leading to the expression TGIF, an acronym for Thank God It's Friday. (That phrase was popularized by a movie during the 1970s.) Friday is also the inspiration for the restaurant, aptly named, TGI Fridays Worldwide. http://www.tgifridays.com In Islam, Friday is the day of public worship in mosques.
The Jewish Sabbath begins at sunset on Friday and runs until sunset on Saturday.
Friday is also the name of a film featuring Ice Cube and Chris Tucker. Friday was the name of a cannibal, who became the servant of Robinson Crusoe.
See also:
- Casual Friday
- Sunday
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Saturday
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Friday is a movie set in 'tha 'Hood' of South Central, Los Angeles, also where star Ice Cube grew up. The story revolvs around two best friends; Smokey (Chris Tucker) and Craig (Ice Cube). They are trying to find enough money to pay off a notorious drug dealer, Big Worm, who has threatened to kill the both of them unless they pay by sundown. Suprisingly, they find the money, and both survive almost unscathed. Craig ends up having a huge 'end of movie' fight with neighbourhood bully, Deebo. Two sequels, Next Friday and Friday After Next, have been released.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Friday (movie)."
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Robert Heinlein's novel Friday was published in 1982. This book tells the story of a female "artificial person" named Friday, set in the not-too-distant future. Friday is employed by a private intelligence agency as a courier, often carrying valuable information in a pouch in her belly. She differs anatomically in being much stronger and faster than other humans. Since artificial humans are widely resented, much of the story deals with Friday's attempts to win against prejudice, along with her attempts to conceal her gifts from other humans. This occurs against a backdrop of general social collapse that is intended to represent the irreversible decline of Western Civilization.References
- Heinlein, Robert A. (1997). Friday. Ballantine Books, Inc., ISBN 0345414004
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| 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 |
| FRI | English | Friday | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: FridaySynonym: Fri (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Auxiliary | Aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal; right-hand, right-hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer; candle-holder, bottle-holder; handmaid; servant; puppet, cat's-paw, jackal. |
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. | |
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Screenplays | And again at Seize the Day, my tuberculous Friday night (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Who was the killer in Friday the 13th (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) The alien has appeared in the Springfield Forest for the last two Friday nights (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Oohh, Friday night Trax (I Think I Do; writing credit: Brian Sloan) Is it Friday already (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) | |
Lyrics | Friday night he pulled a gun to change the channel (Birmingham; performing artist: Amanda Marshall) I took her out, it was a Friday night (What's My Age Again?; performing artist: Blink-182) I waited for an hour last Friday night, she never came around (American Girls; performing artist: Counting Crows) Saving it up for Friday night (Sultans Of Swing; performing artist: Dire Straits) Thank God it's Friday (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre) | |
Clever | Notice: The only person getting his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe. (references; author: unknown) The ladies of the Church have cast off old clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | False Frank fled Flo Friday. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Friday Night (2003) Man Friday (1972) Perfect Friday (1970) Friday on My Mind (1970) Our Girl Friday (1954) | |
Song Titles | Friday I'm In Love (performing artist: The Cure) Friday On My Mind (performing artist: The Easybeats) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Radical changes in sea level following 1964 Alaska Good Friday Earthquake. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Earthquake damage in Alaska following 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | NOAA photo crews help ground-truth disaster damage at Turnagain Arms Damage caused by 1963 Good Friday Earthquake. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Current buoys with lights, radar reflectors, and F.M. transceivers C&GS surveys followed Good Friday Alaska earthquake of 1964 Current surveys conducted with hydrographic surveys Investigations off of HODGSON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Landslide scar at Hanning Bay C&GS surveys followed Good Friday Alaska earthquake of 1964 Earthquake triggered landslide in Hanning Bay Investigations off of HODGSON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Friday Harbor area on the east side of San Juan Island. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Green beans, fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked and canned goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmer's Market held on a USDA parking lot every Friday during the growing season. Credit: USDA. |  | Sweet Corn. Fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmers Market held on a parking lot at USDA headquarters in Washington, DC. Market day is every Friday during the growing and harvest season. Credit: USDA. |
 | Fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked and canned goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmer's Market held on a USDA parking lot every Friday during the growing season. Credit: USDA. |  | Petit Pan Squash. Fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked and canned goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmer's Market held on a USDA parking lot every Friday during the growing season. Credit: USDA. |
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| "Friday Harbor WA" by Sheila Broumley Commentary: "Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands - Washington State." | "Friday Night" by Billy Fowks Commentary: "Taken on the corner of West Broadway and Spring Street, NY I would love to know what my pictures are being used for. Please let me know. Thanks!." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Oh yes, Friday or Saturday next |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | But this is only Friday. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | If, perchance, this soliloquy referred to the last time he had dined it was three days before, for it was then Friday. |
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 |
Health | After vasectomy, the patient will probably feel sore for a few days, and he should rest for at least 1 day. However, he can expect to recover completely in less than a week. Many men have the procedure on a Friday and return to work on Monday. (references) | |
Business | Saudi Government offices close on Thursday and Friday. (references) | |
Some companies in the private sector have a five-day week, the trend being Fridays and Saturdays off. All government business must be accomplished during the five working days. No offices are open on Friday, the day of rest in the Arab world. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Morocco | The Ministry of Islamic Affairs monitors Friday mosque sermons and the Koranic schools to ensure the teaching of approved doctrine. (references) |
Bahrain | However, in January the Government ceased conducting surveillance of Al-Jamri's residence and permitted him to lead Friday afternoon prayers. (references) | |
Iran | Such gatherings include public entertainment and lectures, student gatherings, labor protests, funeral processions, and Friday prayer gatherings. (references) | |
Economic History | Chad | There is one daily paper, Le Progres, published Monday through Friday. (references) |
Mali | The embassy website is www.usa.org.ml. Embassy hours are 7:30 a.m-4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. (references) | |
Ireland | In so doing, it sought to prevent both sides from renouncing the 1998 Good Friday Agreement altogether. (references) | |
Human Rights | United Kingdom | In 2000 a nine-member panel of legal professionals, drawn from the civil service and private practice, issued the Northern Ireland Criminal Justice Review, as mandated by the Good Friday Agreement. (references) |
Seychelles | Police occasionally detained individuals on a Friday or Saturday in order to allow for a longer period of detention without charge, thereby avoiding compliance with the Constitution's 24-hour "charge or release" provision. (references) | |
Ghana | Human rights activists criticized the common practice of arresting persons on Friday and keeping them in detention over the weekend until court was in session on Monday, which they described as a deliberate circumvention of the 48-hour detention rule. (references) | |
Minorities | Pakistan | Qadri and others had been on their way to Friday prayers in Karachi. (references) |
Bangladesh | In October 1999, a bomb killed 6 Ahmadiyas and injured more than 40 others who were attending Friday prayers at their mosque in Khulna; the case remained unresolved at year's end. (references) | |
Armenia | There is no formally operating mosque, although Yerevan's one surviving 18th century mosque, which was restored with Iranian funding, is open for regular Friday prayers on a tenuous legal basis. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | The workweek is limited by law to six 8-hour days, with a day of rest on Friday, which usually is respected. (references) |
Ireland | All major paramilitary groups, on both sides of the border, have declared permanent cease-fires pursuant to the 1998 Good Friday Peace Agreement. (references) | |
Uk | While the Assembly and Executive meet regularly, the work has been interrupted as a result of disputes between the main parties over implementation of the Good Friday Peace Agreement. (references) | |
Political Rights | United Kingdom | In Northern Ireland the devolved institutions established under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement functioned precariously due to continuing controversies over the participation of Sinn Fein in government as long as the IRA refused to decommission its weapons. (references) |
Travel | Uae | Private UAE companies close Thursday afternoon and Friday. (references) |
Qatar | Friday is a day of rest for all sectors, including all Embassies. (references) | |
Women | Japan | In March Keio Electric Railway Company decided to make a trial women-only rail car program permanent, reserving one car only for women on all express and limited express trains running after 11 p.m. Monday to Friday. (references) |
Worker Rights | Oman | The private sector workweek is 40 to 45 hours and includes a rest period from Thursday afternoon through Friday. (references) |
Dominican Republic | In practice, a typical workweek is Monday through Friday plus a half day on Saturday, but longer hours are common. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Al Hunt | Bob, this was vintage John Breaux. He warmly embraced Tom Daschle's speech on Friday, but took issue with the central part of the speech to revisit the tax cuts. |
Rush Limbaugh | On Friday, I brought those of you who now say we should just leave Saddam alone some of the most hawkish statements you've ever heard on Iraq. |
Sarah Ferguson | You can have baked beans on toast. You can have steak and kidney pie. You can have fish and chips. What do you mean not famous! Fish and chips. Nothing better. Friday night. Fish and chip night. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Friday" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Friday" is used about 5,534 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% | 5,534 | 1,776 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Friday" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Friday | Last name | 2,000 | 4,970 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Friday": black friday ♦ Friday Harbor ♦ from friday through sunday ♦ girl friday ♦ good friday ♦ last friday ♦ man friday ♦ next friday ♦ on friday ♦ virtual Friday. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Friday": friday-evening, friday-night, friday-nighter, friday-nighters. | |
Ending with "Friday": Girl-friday, Mid-friday, Monday-friday, Monday-to-friday. | |
Containing "Friday": Man-friday-print. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
friday the 13th | 2,657 | friday soundtrack | 74 |
tgi friday | 2,352 | freestyle friday | 73 |
friday | 1,057 | friday the 13th picture | 72 |
freaky friday | 549 | fight friday night | 71 |
friday after next | 388 | 13th friday history | 65 |
13 friday | 351 | nancy friday | 65 |
friday harbor washington | 330 | 13 dover friday port | 57 |
friday harbor | 235 | good friday | 57 |
next friday | 225 | black friday | 53 |
friday restaurant | 209 | ad friday | 53 |
friday the 13th movie | 193 | friday the 13th pic | 52 |
friday the thirteenth | 163 | origin friday 13th | 50 |
13th dover friday port | 153 | friday recipe tgi | 50 |
tgi friday restaurant | 146 | friday the 13th the series | 49 |
first friday | 138 | thank god its friday | 48 |
friday tgif | 101 | friday linda | 48 |
friday movie | 98 | friday sunset | 46 |
friday the 13th jason | 96 | next friday soundtrack | 46 |
friday porn star | 84 | friday menu tgi | 45 |
t.g.i friday | 75 | after friday next soundtrack | 44 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Friday"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Vrydag. (various references) | |
Albanian | premte, E Premte. (various references) | |
Arabic | يوم الجمعة, الجمعة. (various references) | |
Asturian | Viernes. (various references) | |
Aymara | wirnisa. (various references) | |
Basque | ostirala. (various references) | |
Bemba | palicisano. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | mamiiksistsiko. (various references) | |
Breton | digwener. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Петък. (various references) | |
Catalan | divendres. (various references) | |
Cebuano | Biyernes. (various references) | |
Chamorro | Betnes. (various references) | |
Chinese | 星期五 . (various references) | |
Cornish | dé-Gwener. (various references) | |
Croatian | petak. (various references) | |
Czech | pátek. (various references) | |
Danish | fredag. (various references) | |
Dutch | vrijdag, vrýdag. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | virnis. (various references) | |
Esperanto | vendredo. (various references) | |
Estonian | reede. (various references) | |
Faeroese | fríggjadagur. (various references) | |
Farsi | جمعه , ادینه . (various references) | |
Finnish | perjantai. (various references) | |
Flemish | vrijdag. (various references) | |
French | vendredi. (various references) | |
French Canadian | vendredi. (various references) | |
Frisian | freed. (various references) | |
Galician | venres. (various references) | |
German | Freitag. (various references) | |
Greek | Παρασκευή. (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | vandredi. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ֹום ישי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | péntek (sixth day). (various references) | |
Icelandic | föstudagur. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | Ulutuinnaq. (various references) | |
Irish | haoine, an Aoine. (various references) | |
Italian | venerdì. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 金曜日 , 金曜日 , 金曜 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きんようび, きんよう (exigent, important, momentous, urgent, vital). (various references) | |
Kongo | Lumbu kia ntanu. (various references) | |
Korean | 금요일. (various references) | |
Lombard | venerdì. (various references) | |
Luganda | lwakutaano. (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | freiden. (various references) | |
Macedonian | petok. (various references) | |
Malagasy | zoma. (various references) | |
Malay | Jumat. (various references) | |
Manx | Yn Eney, Jeheiney. (various references) | |
Maori | Paraire. (various references) | |
Mohawk | Wiskhatont. (various references) | |
Norwegian | fredag. (various references) | |
Papago | Wialos. (various references) | |
Papiamen | djabièrnè, djabièrna. (various references) | |
Pidgin English | friday. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | idayfray.(various references) | |
Polish | piątek. (various references) | |
Portuguese | Sexta-feira. (various references) | |
Provencal | divendres. (various references) | |
Romanian | vineri. (various references) | |
Romany | pharastsivì. (various references) | |
Ruanda | Kwagatanu. (various references) | |
Russian | Пятница. (various references) | |
Samoan | Aso Faraile. (various references) | |
Scottish | Di-haoine, dihaoine. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | u petak, petak. (various references) | |
Shona | Chishanu (fifth). (various references) | |
Slovene | petek. (various references) | |
Somali | jimce. (various references) | |
Sotho | labohlano. (various references) | |
Spanish | viernes. (various references) | |
Sranan | freyda. (various references) | |
Swahili | ijumaa. (various references) | |
Swazi | Lesíhlánu. (various references) | |
Swedish | fredag. (various references) | |
Tagalog | biyernes, Biyérnes. (various references) | |
Thai | วันศุกร์. (various references) | |
Tswana | labotlhano. (various references) | |
Turkish | Cuma (Fri). (various references) | |
Turkmen | anna. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | П'ятниця. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ngày thứ sáu. (various references) | |
Welsh | Dydd Gwener. (various references) | |
Wolof | àjjuma. (various references) | |
Xhosa | ulwesihlanu. (various references) | |
Zulu | uLwesihlanu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Friday" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Farida, Faridah, Farideh, Fereday, Fidoao, Fidra, Fraddam, fridas, Fridee, Frideh, froyday, Fruidem, Radday. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Friday" (pronounced 'Fri"day'): Alday, Monday, Playday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Workday. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-i-r-y" | |
-1 letter: dairy, diary, fairy, yaird. | |
-2 letters: airy, arid, dray, fair, fard, fiar, fray, raid, yard, yird. | |
-3 letters: aid, air, arf, day, dry, fad, far, fay, fid, fir, fry, rad, ray, ria, rid, rif, rya, yar, yid. | |
-4 letters: ad, ai, ar, ay, fa, id, if, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-f-i-r-y" | |
+2 letters: draftily. | |
+3 letters: defraying, fairyland, fiduciary. | |
+4 letters: dwarfishly, fairylands, formidably, ladyfinger. | |
+5 letters: foolhardily, ladyfingers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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