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# thursday

«thursday» in Mova's school dictionary: **the day of the week after Wednesday and before Friday** — 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 (Thursday, Thursdays)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Thursday is the day of the week after Wednesday and before Friday. A week is 7 days and Thursday is one of them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thursday/#m1)

2) «On Thursdays» means every Thursday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thursday/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a day of the week; amounts on different days are combined or compared; counting days forward and back. Everyday: school timetables, «See you on Thursday». History: Thursday is named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder.

### examples

- On Thursday she read 15 pages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thursday/#x1)
- He sold 8 cakes on Thursday and 12 on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thursday/#x2)
- The shop is closed on Thursdays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thursday/#x3)
- How many more did he sell on Thursday than on Wednesday? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thursday/#x4)
- We have swimming every Thursday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thursday/#x5)
- If today is Monday, Thursday is in 3 days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thursday/#x6)
- Thursday is named after Thor, the god of thunder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thursday/#x7)
- Next Thursday evening the White Bear came to fetch her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thursday/#x8)

### note

Always written with a capital T: Thursday; short form Thu or Thurs. A day of the story; it labels one amount. Combining days means add; «more than» between days means subtract. Trap: count days carefully: from Monday to Thursday is 3 days later.

### In the corpora

- [The girl says: «This is a Thursday.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/9/)
- [What is hòutiān?» Thursday is day four, two days on is day six, so the answer is Saturday, xīngqīliù.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/3/)
- [Josh in Leeds was meant to take the bins out on Thursday night, but it was cold and he stayed on the sofa.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play/0/)
- [Ruby teaches her grandma Minecraft over a video call every Thursday.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/16/)
- [Last time it came back on Thursday, not Monday, with a sticky controller.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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