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DAY OF THE WEEK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any one of the seven days in a week
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("day of the week" is a kind of...):
calendar day; civil day (a day reckoned from midnight to midnight)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "day of the week"):
day of rest; rest day (a day set aside for rest)
weekday (any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday))
Holonyms ("day of the week" is a part of...):
hebdomad; week (any period of seven consecutive days)
Context examples:
The day of the week that an adverse event concluded.
(Adverse Event End Day, NCI Thesaurus)
Taking 7,000 steps a day, every day of the week is considered equivalent to 30 minutes a day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity at least 5 days a week.
(Another Reason to Exercise: Protecting Your Sight, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The day of the week an adverse event began.
(Adverse Event Start Day, NCI Thesaurus)
The day of the week on which a person was born.
(Birth Day, NCI Thesaurus)
The day of the week demographics data was collected.
(Demographics Data Collection Day, NCI Thesaurus)
The day of the week that concomitant medication usage ended.
(Concomitant Medication Use End Day, NCI Thesaurus)
The day of the week that concomitant medication usage began.
(Concomitant Medication Start Day, NCI Thesaurus)
The day of the week a medical history data was collected.
(Medical History Collection Day, NCI Thesaurus)
It was the day of the week on which Mr. Sharp went out to get his wig curled; so Mr. Mell, who always did the drudgery, whatever it was, kept school by himself.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
There could not be fewer than thirty persons with their wives and children (for the country is very populous;) and my master demanded the rate of a full room whenever he showed me at home, although it were only to a single family; so that for some time I had but little ease every day of the week (except Wednesday, which is their Sabbath,) although I were not carried to the town.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
