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MONDAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The second day of the week; the first working day
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Monday" is a kind of...):
weekday (any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Monday"):
Whitmonday; Whitsun Monday (the day after Whitsunday; a legal holiday in England and Wales and Ireland)
Context examples:
This is a Monday, but you will feel it over the preceding weekend, January 25-26, perfect for giving a party at your home, large or small.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
No deaths or serious injuries were reported as of Monday morning, but the bushfires have caused extensive damage in rural areas of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW).
(Australian Wildfires Destroy Homes, Kill Cattle as Hundreds of People Flee, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I met Colonel Brandon Monday morning in Bond-street, just before we left town, and he told me of it directly.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Yes, sir, I was there last Monday.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
It was not all settled before Monday: as soon as it was, the express was sent off to Longbourn.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
And so she is to come to us next Friday or Saturday, and the Campbells leave town in their way to Holyhead the Monday following—as you will find from Jane's letter.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
On this principle, he soon afterwards observed—“They go on Monday.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It was late on a Monday night that they stopped playing.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
PDT (11:53 p.m. EDT) Monday, July 4.
(Juno Spacecraft in Orbit Around Mighty Jupiter, NASA)
The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the most iconic feature of the solar system’s largest planetary inhabitant during its Monday (July 10) flyby.
(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
