saturday
noun (Saturday, Saturdays)
Everyday
- Saturday is a day of the week. It comes after Friday and before Sunday. tree →
- Saturday and Sunday make the weekend, when most children have no school. tree →
In the lessons
In school maths: a day in time problems; things done on Saturday; counting Saturdays in some weeks; a week is 7 days. In everyday life: Saturday sport, Saturday jobs, shopping, Saturday morning cartoons. Phrases: «on Saturday», «on Saturdays», «Saturday morning», «this Saturday», «a Saturday job».
Examples
- On Saturday he earned 20 dollars. tree →
- She swims every Saturday. tree →
- The fair is on Saturday and Sunday. tree →
- How many Saturdays in 4 weeks? tree →
- I play netball on Saturday mornings. tree →
- Saturday comes after Friday. tree →
- We are going to a party this Saturday. tree →
- My big sister has a Saturday job at the café. tree →
- Now, the next day was Saturday. tree →
Note
Always a capital S. «On Saturday» (one) or «on Saturdays» (every week). Short form «Sat». Maths: a name of a day; it can set which days to count. Trap: there is one Saturday in every 7 days, so 4 weeks have 4 Saturdays.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «saturday» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «saturday» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/saturday/