Saturday
Syllables: Sat·ur·day/ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/
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Northumbria/ˈsæt.ə.də/
Saturday noun: the seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.
Noun
Saturday (plural Saturdays)
- The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.
- The Beijing-based firm — one of four funds created by the Chinese government in 1999 to process the bad loans of state-owned banks — announced Saturday that it would send a group of 50 experts to the province to help it “prevent and defuse risks” and “bail out” the real estate industry.2023 April 27, Laura He, “China may have to bail out one of its poorest provinces”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 28 May 2023
- Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would...2025 February 1, Kevin Liptak, “With stiff tariffs he promised now in place, Trump opens a new trade war”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025
- Synonyms:
- Seventh Day, Sat, Sat.
Adverb
Saturday (not comparable)
- On Saturday.
Verb
Saturday (third-person singular simple present Saturdays, present participle Saturdaying, simple past and past participle Saturdayed)
- To spend Saturday (at a place or doing an activity).
- Mr. Angus Hibbard, of New York, Fridayed and Saturdayed in Chicago, for the show and banquet.1913, Bell Telephone News, volume 3, page 5
Saturday meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Saturday in Hindi
- day of the week
- शनिवार śanivār, शनि śani, सनीचर sanīcar
Saturday in Tamil
- day of the week
- சனி caṉi, சனிக்கிழமை caṉikkiḻamai
Saturday in Marathi
- day of the week
- शनिवार śanivār
Saturday in Urdu
- day of the week
- ہَفْتَہ hafta, سَنِیچَر sanīcar, شَن٘بَہ śamba
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- Saturday in Bengali
- শনিবার śonibar
- Saturday in Telugu
- స్థిరవారము sthiravāramu, శనివారము śanivāramu
- Saturday in Malayalam
- ശനിയാഴ്ച śaniyāḻca
- Saturday in Kannada
- ಶನಿವಾರ śanivāra
- Saturday in Punjabi
- ਸਨਿੱਚਰਵਾਰ saniccarvār, ਸਨੀਵਾਰ sanīvār, ਸ਼ਨਿੱਚਰਵਾਰ śaniccarvār, ਸ਼ਨੀਵਾਰ śanīvār
- Saturday in Gujarati
- શનિવાર śanivār
- Saturday in Odia
- ଶନିବାର śanibāra
- Saturday in Sanskrit
- शनिवार śanivāra, स्थिरवार sthiravāra
- Saturday in Sinhala
- සෙනසුරාදා senasurādā
- Saturday in Assamese
- শনিবাৰ xonibar
- Saturday in Nepali
- शनिबार śanibār, सन्सरबार् sansarabār
- Saturday in Pashto
- شنبه šanba, شنبې šanbe, خالي ورځ xāli wraj, خالي xāli
- Saturday in Tagalog
- Sabado
- Saturday in Arabic
- السَّبْت as-sabt, يَوْم السَّبْت yawm as-sabt
- Saturday in Malay
- Sabtu
- Saturday in Indonesian
- Sabtu
- Saturday in Thai
- วันเสาร์ wan sǎo, เสาร์ sǎo
- Saturday in Vietnamese
- thứ bảy
- Saturday in Myanmar
- စနေ ca.ne
- Sindhi
- ڇَنڇَرُ chãcharu, شَنسچَرُ śãscaru
- Kashmiri
- بَٹہٕ وار baṭhụ vār
- Dzongkha
- ཉི་མ nyi ma
Synonyms of Saturday
Forms of Saturday
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | Saturdays |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | Saturdays |
| present participle | Saturdaying |
| past participle | Saturdayed |
| past | Saturdayed |
Origin of Saturday
From Middle English Saterday, from Old English sæterdæġ, earlier sæternesdæġ (“Saterday”, literally “Saturn's day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī, equivalent to Saturn + day. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”).
Words formed from Saturday
- first Saturday devotions
- Fraturday
- Saturdaily
- Saturday closing
- Saturdaying
- Saturdayish
- Saturdayite
- Saturday-morning cartoon
- Saturdayness
- Saturday-night
- Saturday-night pistol
- Saturday-night special
- Saturday penny
- Saturday pops
- Saturdays
- Saturday Sabbatarian
- Saturday soup
- Saturday-to-Monday
- splatterday
- Third Saturday in October
- week of Saturdays
Phrases with Saturday
Questions about Saturday
- What does Saturday mean?
- Saturday means the seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.
- What is Saturday in Hindi?
- Saturday in Hindi is शनिवार (śanivār), शनि (śani), सनीचर (sanīcar). See Saturday meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Saturday?
- Saturday can be a noun, an adverb or a verb.
- How do you pronounce Saturday?
- Saturday is pronounced /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of Saturday?
- The plural of Saturday is Saturdays.
Words near Saturday in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Saturday (page history and authors); శనివారము (Telugu) (page history and authors); ಶನಿವಾರ (Kannada) (page history and authors); शनिबार (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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