TUESDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tuesday mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUESDAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The third day of the week; the second working day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Tues; Tuesday

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Tuesday"):

Whit-Tuesday; Whitsun Tuesday (the day after Whitmonday)

 Context examples 

She said very well, Tuesday was just as convenient to her; so there is an end of all our difficulties.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I did not arrive here till Tuesday evening.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

On Tuesday, December 3, Mars will contact Venus in Capricorn.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We must remember to let James know that the carriage will be wanted on Tuesday.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It is Anne's own proposal, and so I shall go with you, which will be a great deal better, for I have not dined at the other house since Tuesday.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane's week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

On inquiry, the police have discovered that Mme. Henri Fournaye only returned from a journey to London on Tuesday last, and there is evidence to connect her with the crime at Westminster.

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

Tuesday was a day of similar unremitting toil.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

On the Tuesday morning Captain Barrington was found dead beside his bed with his throat cut.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I did myself the honour of calling in Berkeley Street last Tuesday, and very much regretted that I was not fortunate enough to find yourselves and Mrs. Jennings at home.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)