FRIDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Friday mean? 

• FRIDAY (noun)
  The noun FRIDAY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FRIDAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRIDAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sixth day of the week; the fifth working day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Fri; Friday

Hypernyms ("Friday" is a kind of...):

weekday (any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday))

 Context examples 

One of your favorite days of the month will be Friday, November 8, when things will go your way.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

On Friday night he finished the serial, twenty-one thousand words long.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Your uncle is coming up to a supper which I am giving to the Fancy next Friday. Would you care to make one of us?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On Friday evening Dyn said a security company Flashpoint and a cloud services provider Akamai identified symptoms of malware Mirai participating in the attacks.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)

On Wednesday it was still unfinished, so I hammered away until Friday—that is, yesterday.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had got a baby—oh, there were a pair of babies when she gave birth to this child sitting here, that Friday night!—and what more did she want?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Then that be just where the lie comes in. Why, there be scores of these lay-beds that be toom as old Dun's 'bacca-box on Friday night."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

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)

Your wedding was arranged, then, for the Friday.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No one would own that they were tired of the experiment, but by Friday night each acknowledged to herself that she was glad the week was nearly done.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)