Other forms: sundays
Sunday is the last, laziest day of the week, before school starts again. Sunday lunch, on Sunday, Sunday evening.
It has a mood of its own — the Sunday evening feeling before the week starts is common enough to have been studied. It is the Christian day of worship, and the trading restrictions that once emptied it survive in Britain in shortened opening hours. Note that Sunday is named after the sun, as Monday is after the moon.
1nounsundayThe day between Saturday and Monday.
“On Sunday we have a big family lunch at my grandmother's house.”
sunday is a day of the week.
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰegʷʰ-
Latin
diēs Sōlis
Proto-West Germanic
*Sunnōn dag
Old English
sunnandæġ
Middle English
Sonday
English
Sunday
English, today
sunday
Sunday comes from Middle English Sonday, from Old English sunnandæġ, from Proto-West Germanic Sunnōn dag literally “day of the Sun”, equivalent to sun + day, as a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Sōlis; declared the "venerable day of the sun" by Roman Emperor Constantine on March 7, 321 Compare stq Sundai (“Sunday”), German Low German Sünndag, Dutch zondag, West Frisian snein, German Sonntag, Danish søndag, Yiddish זונטיק.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA