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# sunday

«sunday» in Mova's school dictionary: **a day of the week** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Sunday, Sundays)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sunday is a day of the week. It comes after Saturday and before Monday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunday/#m1)

2) Sunday is part of the weekend; in many places it is a day of rest or of going to church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunday/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a day in time problems; days of the week, counting days, things done on each day; a week is 7 days. In everyday life: Sunday lunch or roast, Sunday school, shops with short Sunday hours. In some calendars Sunday is the first day of the week, in others it is the last. Phrases: «on Sunday», «on Sundays», «Sunday best» (smartest clothes).

### examples

- On Sunday she read 30 pages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunday/#x1)
- The shop is closed on Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunday/#x2)
- From Monday to Sunday is 7 days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunday/#x3)
- He saved 2 dollars every day from Monday to Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunday/#x4)
- We visit Nana every Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunday/#x5)
- Sunday comes after Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunday/#x6)
- On Sundays we have a roast dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunday/#x7)
- The library opens late on Sunday mornings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunday/#x8)
- On the following Sunday there was Communion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunday/#x9)

### note

Always a capital S. «On Sunday», not «in Sunday». Short form «Sun». Maths: a name of a day; it can tell how many days to count. Trap: from Monday to Sunday counts 7 days including both ends.

### In the corpora

- [Snap a chicken bone from Sunday dinner and it is hollow, with thin struts inside like a bridge, light but strong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/2/)
- [Snap the wishbone of the Sunday chicken and you hold the same two joined collarbones that T. rex and Velociraptor had.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken/4/)
- ["xīngqītiān" means Sunday, the only day without a number; "xīngqīrì" means the same.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/7/)
- ["lǎnchóng" means lazybones, literally "lazy worm", and parents use it fondly on Sunday mornings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/9/)
- [Charlie heard a rude word on the school bus in Manchester and said it at Sunday dinner to see what would happen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sunday» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunday/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.