Thursday
['θɜːzdeɪ;-dɪ] or ['θɝzdɪ]
Definition
(n.) The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday.
Editor: Miles
Definition
n. the fifth day of the week so called because originally sacred to Thor the old Teutonic god of thunder.
Edited by Bradley
Examples
- But I should think he could come on Thursday. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But Mr. Bulstrode was taken so ill at the meeting on Thursday that I have not liked to leave the house. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- No trace could be found of the fugitives, and now, on Thursday morning, we are as ignorant as we were on Tuesday. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- On Thursday the manufacturer hired a neighbouring building and set carpenters at work fitting it up. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Last Thursday (May 7th) I, my niece, and your two brothers, went to walk in Plainpalais. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Come on Thursday fortnight, and bring the other chaps with you,' said Mr. Bob Sawyer; 'I'm going to have a few medical fellows that night. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- So Rawdon sate down, and wrote off, Brighton, Thursday, and My dear Aunt, with great rapidity: but there the gallant officer's imagination failed him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I've got my new pink silk for Thursday and don't want a thing. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Indeed he is--in three days, he says: that will be next Thursday; and not alone either. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The party were expected to arrive on Thursday afternoon, in time for dinner at six. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Given out Wednesday night, eight o'clock; brought in Thursday morning, half after nine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Did you see me play the methodist parson, in a tub, at Mrs. Beaumont's masquerade last Thursday? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Thursday--Anchored off Algiers, Africa. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was on a Thursday in the week, and nearly at the end of the third month of my sojourn in Cumberland. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The steamer for Hamburg and the steamer for Rotterdam would start from London at about nine on Thursday morning. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- At Gresham College by 1658 it was the custom to remain for discussion Wednesdays and Thursdays after Mr. Wrens l ecture and Mr. Rook's. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- On Thursdays he was to bring fish to serve for the _jour maigre_ that was to follow. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Inputed by Cecile