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Lord's Day en · NOUN

Etymology

A calque of Ecclesiastical Latin diēs Dominicus, either directly or as a later development of Old Norse dróttinsdagr (“Lord's day”)

Meanings

1. Sunday, the first day of the week, particularly as the Christian Sabbath.
   • All officers in command of Her Majesty’s ships shall cause public worship of Almighty God to be solemnly, orderly and reverently performed in their respective ships, and shall take care that prayers and preaching, by the chaplains of those ships, be performed diligently and that the Lord’s Day be observed. 1957, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part I, section 1”, in Naval Discipline Act 1957, page 1:
   • Today was Sunday, and Aunt Alexandra was positively irritable on the Lord’s Day. I guess it was her Sunday corset. 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

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Relateds

Jesus Day · holy day · Muslim Sabbath · seventh-day Sabbath · Christmas Day · LORD’s holy day · Jewish Sabbath · Shabbes · Shabbat · Seventh Day

Synonyms

first-day Sabbath · Christian Sabbath · Sabbath · First Day

Translations (13)

pl Dzień Pański (Lord's Day) · sw Siku ya Bwana (Lord's Day) · cmn 主日 (Lord's Day) · la diēs Dominicus (Lord's Day) · ja 主日 (Lord's Day) · yue 主日 (Lord's Day) · fr jour du Seigneur (Lord's Day) · ko 주일 (Lord's Day) · de Herrentag (Lord's Day) · de Tag des Herrn (Lord's Day) · de Herrntag (Lord's Day) · nl dag des Heren (Lord's Day) · fi lepopäivä (Lord's Day)