thursday
noun (Thursday, Thursdays)
Everyday
- Thursday is the day of the week after Wednesday and before Friday. A week is 7 days and Thursday is one of them. tree →
- «On Thursdays» means every Thursday. tree →
In the lessons
Maths: a day of the week; amounts on different days are combined or compared; counting days forward and back. Everyday: school timetables, «See you on Thursday». History: Thursday is named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder.
Examples
- On Thursday she read 15 pages. tree →
- He sold 8 cakes on Thursday and 12 on Friday. tree →
- The shop is closed on Thursdays. tree →
- How many more did he sell on Thursday than on Wednesday? tree →
- We have swimming every Thursday. tree →
- If today is Monday, Thursday is in 3 days. tree →
- Thursday is named after Thor, the god of thunder. tree →
- Next Thursday evening the White Bear came to fetch her. tree →
Note
Always written with a capital T: Thursday; short form Thu or Thurs. A day of the story; it labels one amount. Combining days means add; «more than» between days means subtract. Trap: count days carefully: from Monday to Thursday is 3 days later.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «thursday» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «thursday» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/thursday/