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wednesday
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wednesday \Wednes"day\ (?; 48), n. [OE. wednesdai, wodnesdei, AS. W[=o]dnes d[ae]g, i. e., Woden's day (a translation of L. dies Mercurii); fr. W[=o]den the highest god of the Teutonic peoples, but identified with the Roman god Mercury; akin to OS. W[=o]dan, OHG. Wuotan, Icel. O[eth]inn, D. woensdag Wednesday, Icel. [=o][eth]insdagr, Dan. & Sw. onsdag. See Day, and cf. Woden, Wood, a.] The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday.
Ash Wednesday. See in the Vocabulary.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fourth day of the week, Old English wodnesdæg "Woden's day," a Germanic loan-translation of Latin dies Mercurii "day of Mercury" (compare Old Norse Oðinsdagr, Swedish Onsdag, Old Frisian Wonsdei, Middle Dutch Wudensdach). For Woden, see Odin.\n
\nContracted pronunciation is recorded from 15c. The Odin-based name is missing in German (mittwoch, from Old High German mittwocha, literally "mid-week"), probably by influence of Gothic, which seems to have adopted a pure ecclesiastical (i.e. non-astrological) week from Greek missionaries. The Gothic model also seems to be the source of Polish środa, Russian sreda "Wednesday," literally "middle."
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
Wednesday is the day of the week following Tuesday and before Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601 adopted in most western countries it is the third day of the week. In countries that use the Sunday-first convention Wednesday is defined as the fourth day of the week. It is the fourth day of the week in the Judeo-Christian calendar as well, and was defined so in the ancient Mesopotamian and biblical calendars. The name is derived from Old English Wōdnesdæg and Middle English Wednesdei, "day of Woden", ultimately a calque of dies Mercurii "day of Mercury".
Wednesday is in the middle of the common Western five-day workweek that starts on Monday and finishes on Friday.
Wednesday is a day of the week.
Wednesday may also refer to:
Wednesday was a pop vocal group from Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. They scored a hit single in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974 with their cover of the song " Last Kiss", which peaked at #34. That same year, they were nominated for the Canadian Juno Award for Most Promising Group. The single reached #2 in Canada. A follow-up single, a remake of " Teen Angel", was their final chart single in America. The group continued with success in Canada, before and after changing their name to Wenzday in 1976. The parent album, entitled Last Kiss, was released on Ampex Records in Canada, Sussex Records in the U.S. and A&M Records throughout the rest of the world. The band reunited briefly in 2003 for a few successful concerts. Paul Andrew Smith went on to record several solo albums - "A Stranger In My Own World" - "Above The Stars" - "Illogical Box" on Moondog Records as Black Violet. 1
Wednesday is the seventh studio album by King Creosote. It was released in 1999 on Fence Records.
Usage examples of "wednesday".
On Wednesday afternoons he plays football in Central Park, in the North Meadow at Ninety-seventh Street.
Wednesday, July 18, I received a telegram from Bellows Falls, in which Akeley said he was expressing the black stone over the B.
For the first time Wednesday was glad of her survival sensor, which would scream if she was in danger of wandering into an anoxic gas trap.
But Little Arcady knows that Solon is loyal to its welfare--knows that he is fit to wield the mightiest lever of Civilization in its behalf on Wednesday of each week.
On Wednesday, November 12, Susan Atkins was taken to court for a preliminary hearing on the Hinman murder.
The fact that everything at Bedford Mills had seemed perfectly normal on Tuesday, but on Wednesday everyone had vanished temporarily and when they came back at least two of them were no longer human, certainly seemed to imply.
Wednesday, September 10, Blackburn left the apartment in the morning as if he were going to his first shift at the Taco Tommy.
But last Wednesday morning, while perusing breadstuffs at the corner deli, her eyes locked on the muffin with the cranberry smile.
John Bushland freelanced for the newspaper but also had his own commercial studio in Pickax, and Qwilleran found him there, early Wednesday morning.
His accent was pure third-grade grammar school, but the words were spoken in the mincing tones of the chairlady of the Wednesday Afternoon Society for the Furtherance of Music Appreciation.
On Wednesday 20 April 1994, eight weeks after the police first arrived at Cromwell Street with a warrant to search for Heather, Rosemary West was arrested and taken to Cheltenham police station.
Regularly Wednesday and Sunday afternoons, Blix and Condy came out to the lifeboat station.
I have it on impeccable authority that you cornhole Tammy Sue Clendennon in the Gun and Skeet Club library every Wednesday, then pork your secretary, Marbella Tremaine, for dessert.
Wednesday after my great sermon, which is now a respectable landmark, or datemark, at Kilronan, I got the first letter from Bittra.
The latest manhunt centres round Alison Carter, who vanished from the remote Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale on Wednesday.