MONDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Monday mean? 

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

1. the second day of the week; the first working day

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONDAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second day of the week; the first working day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Mon; Monday

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 

And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?

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

On Monday you will arrive early at Farnham; you will conceal yourself near Charlington Heath; you will observe these facts for yourself, and act as your own judgment advises.

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

The biggest and brightest moon for observers in the United States will be on Monday morning just before dawn.

(November Supermoon a Spectacular Sight, NASA)

Comet 252P/LINEAR, approximately 750 feet (230 meters) in size, will zip past Earth on Monday, March 21 at a range of about 3.3 million miles (5.2 million kilometers).

(A 'Tail' of Two Comets, NASA)

He left Woolwich suddenly on Monday night.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And it was last Monday night, somewhere near midnight?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I got more acquainted with him last Monday than ever I did before.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I heard that he went to a dentist's in London on the Monday morning, and had a tooth out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Stick at it, and let me have the lists by Monday, at twelve.

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

And on Monday morning, weary, he began the new week's work, but he had kept sober.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)