Mondays
- on Mondays.
Monday
- the second day of the week, following Sunday.
Origin of Monday
Examples from the Web for mondays
Contemporary Examples
For now, the coherence and scale of Moral Mondays is a success ironically founded in shared defeat.
Neil deGrasse Tyson has never suffered from a case of the Mondays.
Football is played every week of the season on Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays.
Dad is off on Mondays and Lexy is at daycare, but it is a regular work day for mom.
On Mondays and Thursdays, meals are served at 5pm to whomever comes—no questions asked.
Historical Examples
I shall expect you on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at eleven o'clock.
SacrificeStephen French Whitman
For one thing, on Mondays, the market-day, the Caf Prosper was untenantable.
Ten TalesFranois Coppe
Five or six Sundays came and went, with Mondays following regular.
Torchy and VeeSewell Ford
You ought to come to our committee meetings; they're on Mondays at seven.
The Island PhariseesJohn Galsworthy
Mondays were Blanca's "days," and Cecilia made her way towards the studio.
FraternityJohn Galsworthy
Monday
- the second day of the week; first day of the working week
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for mondays
Monday
Old English mondæg, monandæg "Monday," literally "day of the moon," from mona (genitive monan; see moon (n.)) + dæg (see day). Common Germanic (cf. Old Norse manandagr, Old Frisian monendei, Dutch maandag, German Montag) loan-translation of Late Latin Lunæ dies, source of the day name in Romance languages (cf. French lundi, Italian lunedi, Spanish lunes), itself a loan-translation of Greek selenes hemera. The name for this day in Slavic tongues generally means "day after Sunday."
Phrase Monday morning quarterback is attested from 1932, Monday being the first day back at work after the weekend, when school and college football games were played. Black Monday (mid-14c.) is the Monday after Easter day, though how it got its reputation for bad luck is a mystery. Saint Monday (1753) was "used with reference to the practice among workmen of being idle Monday, as a consequence of drunkenness on the Sunday" before [OED]. Clergymen, meanwhile, when indisposed complained of feeling Mondayish (1804) in reference to effects of Sunday's labors.