wednesday
part of speech
noun (Wednesday, Wednesdays)
meaning for a pupil
1) Wednesday is the day of the week after Tuesday and before Thursday. tree →
2) It is in the middle of the school week. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: a day of the week; amounts on different days are added or compared; counting days from one day to another. In everyday life: a weekly club or swimming lesson on Wednesdays, «midweek». Phrases: «on Wednesday», «on Wednesdays» (every week), «next Wednesday», «last Wednesday», «Wednesday morning».
examples
- On Wednesday she ran 3 km. tree →
- He sold 15 books on Wednesday and twice as many on Thursday. tree →
- The library is open on Wednesdays. tree →
- How many in all from Monday to Wednesday? tree →
- We have art every Wednesday afternoon. tree →
- Wednesday is the third day of the school week. tree →
- My piano lesson moved to Wednesday. tree →
- The bins are collected on Wednesday morning. tree →
- On Wednesday surely thou didst call. tree →
note
Always write it with a capital W. Say it «WENZ-day»: the first d is silent. «On Wednesday», not «in Wednesday». Short form «Wed». Maths: a day label; combining days means add. «Monday to Wednesday» is 3 days (count both ends).
In the corpora
- One Wednesday Jayden saw Zara watching from the side, quiet.
- He spelt «because» three different ways on one page and wrote «Wednesday» as «Wensday».
- Wednesday comes from "Woden's day", after the old Germanic god Woden, the same god the Norse called Odin.
- Lent is forty days before Easter remembering Jesus' forty days in the desert; it begins on Ash Wednesday.
- On Ash Wednesday some Christians receive a cross of ashes on their forehead as a sign of saying sorry to God.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wednesday» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.