Friday — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Muslim Sabbath; it follows Thursday and precedes Saturday.

   Synonyms

   Sixth Day

   Examples

   More examples (2)

   For a micromoon and Friday the 13th full moon to occur together is extraordinarily rare. The last time it happened was in 1832 and it won't happen again for more than 500 years according to Tony Rice, a meteorologist and engineer at NASA.

   Their mindset is the grindset, and they love the grind. I used to have a sales manager who didn't think this way. On Fridays, he'd always say, “Happy Friday.” A lot of people feel that way, but I never liked that phrase because it[…]

2. The last workday in a work schedule that is not Monday through Friday.

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • with possessive

   Synonyms

   FriFFr

   Broader terms

   day

   Narrower terms

   Black FridayBloody Fridaycasual Fridaydress-down FridayEaster Fridayexpiration FridayFirst FridayFriday the thirteenthgal Fridaygirl FridayGirl FridayGolden FridayGood FridayGreat and Holy FridayGreat Fridayguy FridayHollywood Black FridayHoly FridayLong Fridayman FridayMan FridayMarlboro Fridaynext sitting Fridayperson FridayRed Friday

   Examples

   Tomorrow's Thursday, but I have Friday and Saturday off, so really it's my Friday.

Adverb

1. On Friday.

   Usage

   • Canada
   • US usage
   • Informal
   • not-comparable
   • in UK

Noun

1. the sixth day of the week; the fifth working day

   Synonyms

   Fri

   Broader terms

   weekday