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WEDNESDAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The fourth day of the week; the third working day
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Wednesday" is a kind of...):
weekday (any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday))
Context examples:
Besides, this refers to the Monday, and the crime was done upon the Wednesday.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With your consent, I trust to have the honor of calling at eleven o'clock the day after to-morrow (Wednesday) morning.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What d’you want to frighten a chap for?”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Always run the mangle Wednesday nights—collars an' cuffs.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The weather was less keen upon the Wednesday, and the rear-guard made good their passage, with the bombards and the wagon-train.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On Wednesday, the strong tremor left five dead and, by early reports, at least 30 injured.
(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)
They should have got to Veresti about noon on Wednesday.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I will answer for it that we shall find no inconvenience from narrow roads on Wednesday.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
On Wednesday, Nov. 29, they learned the TCM thrusters worked perfectly — and just as well as the attitude control thrusters.
(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)
On Wednesday, October 18, 2019, more than 100 members, reportedly, of the Northern Arapaho Tribe turned out to watch the release of ten buffalo for the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming in the western United States.
(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)
