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Definition: Sunday |
SundayAdjective1. Used of clothing; "my good clothes"; "her Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes". Noun1. First day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians. Verb1. Spend Sunday; "We sundayed in the country". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Sunday" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the sun", "a day". |
Date "Sunday" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Sunday \Sun"day\, noun. [Anglo-Saxon sunnand[ae]g; sunne, gen. sunnan, the sun + d[ae]g day; akin to Dutch zondag, German sonntag; -- so called because this day was anciently dedicated to the sun, or to its worship. See Sun, and Day.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sunday Important battles fought on Sunday. Barnet, Bull Run, Carberry Hill, Friedland, Fuentes d'Onoro, Jarnac, THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE (Lord Howe's great victory), Killiecrankie, Kunersdorf, Leipsig, Lepanto, Lincoln, Newbury, RAMILLIES, Ravenna, Saarbruck (the "baptism of fire"), SEDAN, Seringapatam, Stony Creek, of the Thirty, Toulouse, Towton, Vienna, Vimiera, WATERLOO, WORCESTER. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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The Sabbath (Hebrew "Shabbat") is a religious day of rest that comes once a week. The Hebrew word means "the [day] of rest." The first Sabbath was the day during which God rested after having completed the creation in six days, as described in Genesis 2:2-3.The Sabbath is observed in both Judaism and Christianity; this article will focus on the Sabbath in Christianity. See also: Shabbat. For other uses see Sabbath (disambiguation).
Earliest Christian observance
The first Christians were Jews, and apparently continued to honor the Sabbath on Saturday, at least until the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in A.D. 70.
Sunday observance
The first Christians also came together on the first day of the week to break bread and to listen to Christian preaching (Acts 20:7) and to gather collections (1 Cor. 16:2). It was on that day that, according to the Christians, Jesus was raised from the dead (Mt. 28:1, Mk. 16:2, Lk. 24:1, Jn. 20:1). The disciples of Jesus also claimed that on that same evening, called the first day of the week, the resurrected Christ came to them while they were gathered in fear (Jn. 20:19). Eight days later, on the first day, Jesus is said to have appeared to them a second time (Jn. 20:26). The writer called Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, writes that "After his suffering, he showed himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God." At the end of forty days, the Christians believe that Jesus ascended into heaven while the disciples watched (Acts 1:9). Ten days later, the first day is the day of the feast of Pentecost (See: Shavuot) on which the Christians say that the Spirit of God was given to the disciples of Christ, establishing the Christian Church.
These events are cited by Christian teachers and historians, believed to have written very early, as the reason that Christians gathered on the Lord's Day, the first day of the week, including Barnabas (AD 100), Ignatius of Antioch (AD 107), Justin Martyr (AD 145), Bardaisan (AD 154), Irenaeus (AD 178), Tertullian (AD 180), Cyprian (AD 200), Victorinus (AD 280), and Eusebius of Caesarea (AD 324) [Note: dates are traditional]. The early Christians believed that the resurrection and ascension of Christ signals the renewal of creation, a day analogous to the first day of creation when God made the light. However, these writers do not call the day a Sabbath.
Sunday vs Saturday
In AD 321, The Emperor Constantine established the first day as a "venerable day", distinct from the Jewish Sabbath (See Blue law). It is believed by many that, at least the Jewish Christians continued to meet on the Sabbath, even if they also met on Sunday, perhaps even after the Council of Laodicea (a local council in Asia, held in 364 AD, which rejected those who kept the Jewish Sabbath).
Eastern Orthodox churches distinguish between "the sabbath" (Saturday) and "the Lord's day" (Sunday). Catholics put little emphasis on that distinction and most of them, at least in colloquial language, speak of Sunday as the sabbath. Protestantss regard Lord's Day, Sabbath, and Sunday as synonymous terms for the Christian Sabbath (except in those languages in which the name of the seventh day is literally equivalent to "Sabbath"); a minority of Protestants keep Saturday, the seventh day, as the Lord's Day and the Christian Sabbath.
Acts 20:17 says that, "On the first day of the week we came together to break bread", where Paul preached until midnight. One must remember, however, that according to Jewish tradition (and as described in the Bible), a day begins when the sun goes down and this meeting apparently gathered in the evening. So, those who have believed that the Christians kept the Sabbath on the seventh day argue that this meeting (Acts 20:17) would have begun on Saturday night. Paul would have been preaching on Saturday night until midnight and then walked eighteen miles from Traos to Assos on Sunday. He would not have done so, if he had regarded Sunday as the Sabbath, much less boarded a boat and continued to travel to Mitylene and finally on to Chios. Biblical evidence suggests that Paul was a lifelong Sabbath keeper for the sake of the Jews, and if Sunday was now the Sabbath, then this journey would have been contrary to his character. It is not generally debated that Paul did keep the Jewish Sabbath, although some doubt that this is an instance of it, although it may be if it shows him waiting until the morning of the first day to continue his work. The focus of the story is about Eutychus, his accident, and his resurrection, not the changing of the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first day of the week.
Also in Acts 2:46, they went to the Temple in Jerusalem and broke bread from house to house "daily". There is no mention of the Sabbath, and it is debatable whether this is a reference to Communion. There are many instances of the Gospel being taught and preached on non-specific days as well as daily. One example is in Mark 2:1-2 another is Luke 19:47-20:1, where it clearly indicates that Jesus himself taught and preached daily. There is no significance given to the day, the breaking of bread, nor the preaching, they are merely mentioned as events that might take place on any day of the week.
Sabbath in the New Testament
There is no commandment to keep the Sabbath, in the New Testament. In fact, on the contrary, Paul writes in Colossians 2:16, "Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day." For this reason among others, latitude with regard to the keeping of a particular day has generally prevailed among Christians. A practical distinction sometimes arose then, between The Lord's Day and The Sabbath. Toleration of Saturday observance became common, for example in the United States, in deference to Jews and other seventh-day sabbatarians, whose conscientious keeping of Saturday is mandated by a literal reading of the Law of God. This is often distinguished from Sunday observance, "first day sabbatarianism", or "eighth day sabbatarianism", according to which Sunday is kept because it is the "day of light", the first day of the new creation, and the traditional day on which Christians have met.
To be non-sabbatarian does not necessarily equate to making all days alike. A member of a non-sabbatarian church may nevertheless be very conscientious about avoiding certain kinds of activities, and doing others, because it is the day for the church to gather, a day for prayer and for works of mercy. However, in some rare cases a complete reproduction of Sabbath ordinances on a different day is attempted. And in other cases, Saturday is kept together with many of the ordinances of Shabbat.
Protestant sabbatarianism
A new rigorism was brought into the observance of the Christian Lord's Day with the Protestant reformation, especially among the Puritans of England and Scotland, in reaction to the laxity with which Sunday observance was customarily kept. Sabbath ordinances were appealed to, with the idea that only the word of God can bind men's consciences in whether or how they will take a break from work, or to impose an obligation to meet at a particular time. Their influential reasoning spread to other denominations also, and it is primarily through their influence that "Sabbath" has become the colloquial equivalent of "Lord's Day" or "Sunday". The most mature expression of this influence survives in the Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 21, "Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath Day". Section 7-8 reads:
- 7. As it is the law of nature, that, in general, a due proportion of time be set apart for the worship of God; so, in his Word, by a positive, moral, and perpetual commandment binding all men in all ages, he hath particularly appointed one day in seven, for a Sabbath, to be kept holy unto him: which, from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, was the last day of the week; and, from the resurrection of Christ, was changed into the first day of the week, which, in Scripture, is called the Lord’s day, and is to be continued to the end of the world, as the Christian Sabbath.
- 8. This Sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforehand, do not only observe a holy rest, all the day, from their own works, words, and thoughts about their worldly employments and recreations, but also are taken up, the whole time, in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy.
Seventh-day sabbatarianism
The Socinian churches of Eastern Europe and Holland more rigorously equated the Christian sabbath with the Jewish Shabbat. Sunday observance was abandoned in favor of a more literal and rigorous observance of the Sabbath, leading to a revival of seventh-day sabbatarianism. The influence of the Socinians was felt among the Anabaptists in Holland. A small number of them adopted Saturday as the day of worship. Already persecuted by both Protestants and Catholics, this small Seventh-day sect added even the Anabaptists to their list of enemies, and finally abandoned Christianity for orthodox Judaism. Seventh-day sabbatarianism did not become prevalent to any degree among Trinitarian Protestants, until it was revived in England by several groups of English Baptists, and through them the doctrine spread to a few churches in other denominations. These leaders and churches were persecuted as heretics by the Trinitarian and Sunday-observing establishment, in England.
The Seventh Day Baptists arrived at the height of their direct influence on other sects, in the middle of the 19th century, in the United States, when their doctrines were instrumental in founding the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Seventh-day Church of God. Also, the direct influence of the Socinians continues to be felt, as will be found anywhere that Unitarianism and Saturday observance appear together in a non-Jewish sect.
[Note: there is technical distinction between the doctrine of Unitarians and Unitarianism. Unitarians typically deny the miraculous birth of Christ, but this is not true of all adherents to Unitarianism, and it was not true at all of the Socinians; confusing in this context, perhaps, but important.]
Other Sabbatarian disputes
Sabbatarianism is usually considered by Christians to be a hazardous doctrine, which provides easy access to bizarre legalistic imbalance, even though the intention of all sabbatarians is simply to worship God when and how He has commanded.
How much can be lifted, before lifting is work? How far is a day's journey, in the jet age? Is it a work of necessity to make public transportation available on the Sabbath? On and on, the questions go, to the exasperation even of sabbatarians themselves, because to get worked up over these details misses the point of the Sabbath, they say. This point is made in countless sabbatarian tracts and sermons, sometimes immediately preceding long lists of "do" and "don't". The formulaic response to extremes is the old one, "let no man judge you", and "let each be convinced in his own mind", and on the other hand, "whatever is not of faith, is sin." Regardless, the tension between ordinance and conscience is recognized as being inevitable, unless one believes that God has not commanded that He should be worshipped anytime or anywhere.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sabbath."
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Sunday is the day of the week between Saturday and Monday. It gets its name from Sunne, the Saxon Sun god, or Sunna the Scandinavian Sun goddess.
Sunday is sometimes held to be the last day of the week (especially in modern Europe), and sometimes the first day (a traditional view derived from ancient Jews and ancient Egyptians).
In ancient Jewish tradition Saturday is the sabbath. Many languages lack separate words for "Saturday" and "sabbath". Eastern Orthodox churches distinguish between the sabbath (Saturday) and the Lord's day (Sunday). Roman Catholics put so little emphasis on that distinction that many among them follow -- at least in colloquial language -- the Protestant practice of calling Sunday the sabbath.
See also:
- Blue laws
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sunday."
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A week is a unit of time longer than a day and shorter than a month. In most modern calendars, including the Gregorian Calendar, the week is a period of seven days, and although it does not rely on any astronomical basis, it is widely used as a unit of time. The week can be thought of as an independent calendar running in parallel with various other calendars. However, some calendars make the week dependent by having days that do not belong to the week as in the World calendar or in the French Revolutionary Calendar, which had weeks of 10 days.
The origin of a seven-day period is generally associated with the ancient Jews and the biblical account of the creation, according to which God laboured for six days and rested on the seventh. However, the ancient Babylonians were known to have observed a fixed seven-day week before the Jews adopted the idea. The Babylonian use of the seven-day week eventually influenced other cultures in Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. The use of the fixed 7-day period was probably a simplification of a part of a lunar month. Meanwhile both the Babylonians and the Jews retained the lunar calendar while using the 7-day week. There are 7 primary heavenly bodies: the sun, moon and five planets visible to the naked eye, and this may explain the seven-day week.
Various groups of citizens of the Roman Empire adopted the week, especially those who had spent time in the eastern parts of the empire including Egypt where the 7-day week was in use. Contemporaneously, Christians picked up the practice from the Jews and spread the week's use along with their religion.
As the early Christians evolved from being Jewish to being a distinct group, various groups evolved from celebrating both the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) and the first Day or the Lord's Day (Sunday), to only celebrating Sunday.
In the early 4th century (CE), the Roman Emperor Constantine regulated the use of the week due to a problem of the myriad uses of various days for religious observance, and established the first day as the day for religious observance for all groups, not just those Christians and others who were already observing Sunday. The Jews retained their (at least) 800-year-old tradition of Saturday observance. Later, after the establishment of Islam, Friday became that religion's day of observance.
The 7-day-week concept defined in the ancient Middle East, probably Babylon, is now used in most of the world due to the spread of corporate commercial trade and business.
China and Japan
China adopted the concept of the work week only in modern times when the western calendar system was introduced to China. There are multiple terms for week in Chinese. The most well known to Westerners is 星期 (Xing1 Qi2 or "Star Period"). According to this site:
In Second Century China, a method of recording time was invented, called the 七曜曆 (Qi1 Yao4 Li4 or "Seven Luminaries Calendar"), but it did not definitely contain the Seven Luminaries method of counting days. In the Eighth Century, Manichaeism travelled from 康居國 (Kang1 Ju1 Guo2; Cossack Country?) carrying the Seven Luminaries method of counting days and transmitted it into China.Slightly earlier, the passage explained the nomenclature of the adopted system:
The Seven Luminaries were used to count the days at some ancient date. This other method began in ancient Babylon, one of seven days comprising a week, the Sun Luminary, the Moon Luminary, the Fire Luminary (Mars), the Water Luminary (Mercury), the Wood Luminary (Jupiter), the Metal Luminary (Venus), and the Land Luminary (Saturn), respectively, comprised the original system and were called the "星期" (Xing1 Qi2 or "Star Period").In the early Chinese system, the days of the week were named after the Sun (日曜日 Sunday), the moon (月曜日 Monday), and the five major planets, Mars (火曜日 Tuesday), Mercury (水曜日 Wednesday), Jupiter (木曜日 Thursday), Venus (金曜日 Friday) and Saturn (土曜日 Saturday) in that order. The Japanese language still preserves the same naming of the week, though the Chinese no longer uses it. In modern Chinese, the days of week are named by number, e.g. Monday is called "planet period one" (星期一) etc.
The final term for week in Chinese is 裡拜 (Li3 Bai4) which means something like "Prayer Ritual". This was almost certainly introduced by Christian missionaries who would have wanted Chinese people to pray weekly on the previously mentioned Sabbath, as the Chinese Ancestor Religion requires daily or calendrically defined offerings and has no "day of rest".
Days of the week:
In English the names of the days mostly come from Norse gods and goddesses (Saturday being the only one named after a Roman god):
- Monday
Moon Day
- Tuesday
Tyr's Day
The Day of Mars
- Wednesday
Wodan or Odin's Day
The Day of Mercury
- Thursday
Thor's Day
The Day of Jupiter
- Friday
Freyr or Freya's Day
The Day of Venus
- Saturday
Saturn's Day
The Day of Saturn
- Sunday
Sun Day Saturday and Sunday are commonly called the weekend and are days of rest and recreation in most western cultures.
According to the ISO 8601 norm the week begins on a Monday. This corresponds with the term weekend for the Saturday and Sunday. However following Constantine's decision to make the first day of the week the day of religious observance, Sunday may also be considered the first day of the week in historically Christian countries. In this regard calendars exist in two varieties.
The Thursdays of a year determine the week numbering: week 1 is defined as the week that contains the first Thursday of the year, etc., see also ISO 8601.
A system of Dominical letters has been used to determine the day of week in the Gregorian or the Julian calendar.
Facts and Figures:
In a Gregorian mean year there are exactly 365.2425 days, and thus exactly 52.1775 weeks. There are exactly 20871 weeks in 400 Gregorian years, so 25 December 1601 was a Tuesday just like 25 December 2001.
- 1 week = 7 days
- 1 week = 168 hours = 10,080 minutes = 604,800 seconds
- 1 year = 52 weeks + 1 day (2 days in a leap year)
- 1 week = 23% of an average month (almost exactly)
see also calendar, times from 100 kiloseconds to 1 megasecond
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Week."
| 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 |
| Sun. | English | Sunday | Geography, Meteorology & Standards |
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Synonyms: SundaySynonyms: good (adj), go-to-meeting(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ornament | In full dress; (fashion); dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to advantage; in Sunday best, en grand tenue, en grande toilette; in best bib and tucker, endimanche. |
Ostentation | Dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue, in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanch_, chic. |
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. | |
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Screenplays | Put on your Sunday best, kids, we're going to Sears (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Betty Thomas, written by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner) It was the hottest Sunday in my recollection (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler) Take 2 tickets, and see the game Sunday morning (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Since Sunday, dear (Auntie Mame; writing credit: Betty Comden; Patrick Dennis) Later on, years later, now, even still, uh, it's a funny thing -- it happened on a Sunday and every Sunday about the time I was taken on board that ship I -- find I have no feelings in my buttocks (Waiting for Guffman; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Eugene Levy) | |
Lyrics | Another Pleasant Valley Sunday (Pleasant Valley Sunday; performing artist: The Monkees) It was Sunday (Smooth Criminal; performing artist: Alien Ant Farm) And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) Sunday all the lights of London (Babylon; performing artist: David Gray) Now, me and Deliah singing every Sunday (Long Time Gone; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) | |
Clever | Potluck supper: Sunday at 5:00 P.M... Prayer and medication to follow. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Simplified and Painless Sunday School Illustrated (1973) Another Sunday and Sweet F.A. (1972) On Any Sunday (1971) The Day Before Sunday (1970) It's Sunday Night (1969) | |
Song Titles | Sunday Will Never Be The Same (performing artist: Spanky and Our Gang) Seventeen Come Sunday (performing artist: Steeleye Span) Pleasant Valley Sunday (performing artist: The Monkees) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "A sure sign of Sunday" - White 3/4 ton truck Astro Party of C. V. Hodges. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Washington, D.C. Mar 1943. Children in Sunday school class at the First Wesleyan Methodist church P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Esther Bubley.. |
 | Hauled out for repairs at the Destroyer Base, San Diego, California, following a collision with USS Percival (DD-298) on the night of 31 January 1926. The original caption reads: "Close-up showing dent in her side as a result of the collision with USS Percival, Sunday night, 31 January 1926. The collision occurred between the two ships in Coronado Roads, California. The sharp prow of the Percival punctured the port forward oil tank of the William Jones, in addition to cutting three deep gashes in the hull just above the water line and cracking several frame plates. William Jones was placed on the marine ways at the Destroyer Base for repairs, when spattered from stem to stern with oil that poured out from the leaking fuel tank, she returned to the harbor. Percival, apparently seaworthy, was ordered to proceed to Panama with the Fleet.". Credit: NAVY. |  | Line engraving, after a sketch by George Watters, published in "Harper's Weekly", 10 December 1864, page 789, depicting a Sunday morning inspection aboard the ship. Crewmen are paraded with cutlasses beside one of the gunboat's 100-pounder Parrott rifled guns. Note hoisting arrangements in the hatch at left, possibly to supply ammunition to the gun, officers standing at right and hammocks stowed in the hammock rails. Credit: NAVY. |
 | A caucus held at Albany on sunday evening April 11th. 1824 by the N.Y. city members. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Scene in Washington. Sunday Feby. 25. 1838. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | W. A. Sunday. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Billy Sunday. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | On Sunday afternoons they all went picnicking. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sunday afternoon in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sunday at the game II" by Ossian Engmark Commentary: "FC Copenhagen VS. AGF." | "Sunday Morning Door" by Kelly Abbott Commentary: "Breakfast anyone?." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Measure men not by Sunday without regarding what they may do all the week after. |
Benjamin Franklin | Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance. |
Henry IV | I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. |
Samuel Butler | The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday. |
William Shakespeare | Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Fifth.The adoption of a weekly rest of at least twenty-four hours, which should include Sunday wherever practicable. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Give me till Sunday afternoon |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | They would be done long before Sunday, he said |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They went to the least frequented walk of the Luxembourg, and every Sunday to mass, always at Saint Jacques du Haut Pas, because it was quite distant |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It was not like the smell of the old peasants who knelt at the back of the chapel at Sunday mass |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He has a great bundle of white oak bark under his arm for a sick man, gathered this Sunday morning |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | For example under fiction, Tom Clancy appears in both in The New York Times, and Sunday Times top ten. (Not to mention Harry Potter!) Biographies also follow suit. There is also correlation between books and movies. (references) | |
Sales of fine jewelry products reach their peak in December during Christmas and the New Year. October is another important month for sales due to Mothers’ Day, which in Argentina falls on the third Sunday of that month. (references) | ||
Recent scares include contaminated cod liver oil stocks and possible harmful effects of large doses of vitamin C. These stories are reported by all the major U.K. press, such as the BBC’s weekly TV program Watchdog Healthcheck and the Sunday Times magazine, which has a regular natural health column that often includes discussions of nutritional supplement usage. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | Sunday school classes resumed at the school. (references) |
Vietnam | Catholic churches in HCMC and elsewhere hold Sunday school classes. (references) | |
Angola | State-owned television also broadcasts live Sunday morning Catholic Church services. (references) | |
Economic History | Slovak Rep | Sunday shopping and round-the-clock shopping are permitted under Slovak law. (references) |
Ireland | There are four national Sunday newspapers, of which the Sunday Business Post is directed at the important corporate executive market. (references) | |
Qatar | Tel.: 974-488-4161; fax 4884150. The embassy is open Sunday through Thursday (Qatar's workweek), closed for U.S. and Qatari holidays. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nigeria | In 1999 Mike Okiro replaced Sunday Aghedo, police commissioner in Lagos state, under whose command the death occurred. (references) |
Indonesia | According to Amnesty International (AI) on June 25, armed men abducted Hubertus Wresman, a Sunday school teacher from Betaf. (references) | |
Guatemala | The unit from Military Zone 12, charged with providing perimeter security at the prison, was suspiciously not present at the time of the escape on a Sunday afternoon. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Bangladesh | On Easter Sunday, the Forestry Department inaugurated an eco-park on the lands of the predominantly Christian Khasi tribals in Mouluvibazar. (references) |
Minorities | Ghana | On May 20, the second Sunday of the ban, groups of young men attacked more charismatic churches, and stole musical equipment and money. (references) |
Bangladesh | On June 3, in Baniachar, Gopalganj district, a bomb exploded inside a Catholic church during Sunday mass, killing 10 persons and injuring 20 others. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | Sunday is not recognized as the Sabbath for Christians. (references) |
HAITI | It sets the standard workday at 8 hours and the workweek at 48 hours, with 24 hours of rest on Sunday. (references) | |
Uruguay | The election of state governors takes place on the second Sunday of May in the year following a national election year. (references) | |
Travel | Egypt | The workweek in Egypt is Sunday through Thursday. (references) |
Slovak Rep | Saturday and Sunday are days off for most workers. (references) | |
Jamaica | Government offices are closed Saturday and Sunday. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Marshall Islands | On Sunday most businesses are closed, and persons generally refrain from working. (references) |
Liechtenstein | The law provides for mandatory rest periods, and with few exceptions, Sunday work is not allowed. (references) | |
Cambodia | The law stipulates time-and-one-half for overtime and double time if overtime occurs at night, on Sunday, or on a holiday. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Pamela Anderson | Well, I believe in God. I definitely believe that He is the reason that I've gotten through everything that I have. And I go to church. My kids go to Sunday school. And it's definitely a part of my life. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Sunday, the Tony awards, first on PBS, then on CBS. This will be the stage I make my big singing opening number. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I will never forget what the Family and Medical Leave law meant to just one father I met early one Sunday morning in the White House. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Sunday" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sunday" is used about 9,354 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% | 9,354 | 1,020 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Sunday" 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 |
| Sunday | First name Female | 1,000 | 3,603 |
| Sunday | Last name | 1,000 | 10,290 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Sunday Communications Ltd | Japan | Sunday Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Sunday": Advent Sunday ♦ Alb Sunday ♦ Albless Sunday ♦ Carling Sunday ♦ cycle of the Sunday letter ♦ Easter Sunday ♦ from friday through sunday ♦ God's Sunday ♦ have only one's sunday best to wear ♦ Hospital Sunday ♦ in Sunday best ♦ Laetere Sunday ♦ last sunday ♦ low sunday ♦ mothering sunday ♦ next sunday ♦ on sunday ♦ palm Sunday ♦ passion Sunday ♦ Quadragesima Sunday ♦ Quadrigesima Sunday ♦ quasimodo sunday ♦ Quinquagesima Sunday ♦ refreshment sunday ♦ rogation sunday ♦ Septuagesima Sunday ♦ septuagesmia sunday ♦ Shrove Sunday ♦ sunday best ♦ sunday habit ♦ sunday is a day of rest ♦ Sunday letter ♦ sunday newspaper ♦ sunday newspapers ♦ sunday painter ♦ Sunday punch ♦ sunday school ♦ Sunday school class ♦ sunday truth ♦ Sunday work ♦ Tradition Sunday ♦ trinity sunday ♦ whit sunday. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Sunday": sunday-afternoon, sunday-best, sunday-evening, sunday-go-to-meeting, Sunday-go-to-meetings, sunday-lunch, sunday-morning, sunday-night, sunday-school, Sunday-school-level, sunday-schools, sunday-shop, sunday-the, sunday-though, sunday-trading. | |
Ending with "Sunday": News-on-sunday. | |
| 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 |
back sunday taking | 3,013 | gloomy sunday | 117 |
back lyrics sunday taking | 1,117 | added last link sunday | 115 |
sunday school | 651 | any given sunday | 113 |
sunday school lesson | 624 | sunday morning | 112 |
sunday | 485 | sunday school curriculum | 110 |
sunday night sex show | 437 | international sunday school lesson | 103 |
sunday times | 391 | free sunday school lesson | 90 |
sunday school craft | 343 | sunday river | 89 |
bloody sunday | 236 | the sunday telegraph | 89 |
sunday sport | 204 | sunday school activity | 86 |
pentecost sunday | 192 | sunday punch | 83 |
mail on sunday | 175 | sunday brunch | 83 |
raining sunday | 160 | billy sunday | 83 |
easter sunday | 157 | nfl sunday ticket | 83 |
back sunday tab taking | 145 | back picture sunday taking | 81 |
maine sunday telegram | 131 | everyday sunday | 78 |
child sunday school lesson | 129 | sunday school game | 72 |
sunday mirror | 122 | sunday school material | 65 |
sunday trinity | 120 | oklahoman sunday | 64 |
cbs morning sunday | 117 | sunday sun | 64 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Sunday"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | sondag. (various references) | |
Albanian | I Së Dielës (dominical), E Diel (first day, quadragesima, sabbath), dielë, diel. (various references) | |
Arabic | يوم الأحد (sabbath), الأحد. (various references) | |
Asturian | Domingu. (various references) | |
Aymara | tuminku. (various references) | |
Basque | igandea. (various references) | |
Bemba | pamulungu. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | naatoyíksistsiko. (various references) | |
Breton | disul. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Празничен, Неделя, Неделен. (various references) | |
Catalan | diumenge. (various references) | |
Cebuano | Domingo. (various references) | |
Chamorro | Damenggo. (various references) | |
Chinese | 星期天 . (various references) | |
Cornish | dé-Sül. (various references) | |
Croatian | nedjelja. (various references) | |
Czech | nedìle. (various references) | |
Danish | søndag. (various references) | |
Dutch | zondag (Sun., Sund.). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | domingo. (various references) | |
Esperanto | diman’o, dimanĉo. (various references) | |
Estonian | pühapäev. (various references) | |
Faeroese | sunnudagur. (various references) | |
Farsi | یکشنبه راگذراندن , یکشنبه (Sabbath), مربوطبه یکشنبه , تعطیل (Holiday, Standstill, Suspension, Vacation). (various references) | |
Finnish | sunnuntai. (various references) | |
Flemish | zondag. (various references) | |
French | Dimanche. ( |
