Friday
[ˈfraɪde]
['fraidi]
Definition
(n.) The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.
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Definition
n. the sixth day of the week.—Black Friday Good Friday from the black vestments of the clergy and altar in the Western Church: any Friday marked by a great calamity; Good Friday the Friday before Easter kept in commemoration of the Crucifixion; Holy Friday Friday in an ember-week—also Golden Friday sometimes put for Good Friday itself.
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Examples
- Oh yes, Friday or Saturday next. Jane Austen. Emma.
- My Lady Steyne, he said, once more will you have the goodness to go to the desk and write that card for your dinner on Friday? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Don't you know it's Friday? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I was afraid to put it off till next day (the Friday); being in doubt lest some accident might happen in the interval. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It was on a Friday that he intimated this to Mrs. Sparsit at the Bank, adding: 'But you'll go down to-morrow, ma'am, all the same. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But on Friday night he must be in town, having a Ladies' Charity, in difficulties, waiting to consult him on Saturday morning. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- On Black Friday they purchased another $28,000,000 at 160, and still the price went up. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Friday was pay-day for the colliers, and Friday night was market night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I arrived at Limmeridge House on Friday the second of November. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- On Friday, nothing happened--except that one of the dogs showed signs of a breaking out behind the ears. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- On the Friday night, as Betteredge truly describes it, she had found me alone at the billiard-table. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- On the Friday I was not favoured by Mr. Fairlie with an interview. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- On Friday evening we walked up to Hampstead and back. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- To-day is Friday, said Sergeant Cuff, addressing himself to Superintendent Seegrave. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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