Mondays
Americanadverb
Usage
What does Mondays mean? The word Mondays can be used as an adverb meaning every Monday or on Mondays, as in I work Mondays or Many restaurants are closed Mondays. Mondays is of course also the plural of Monday, the name of the weekday between Sunday and Tuesday. When it’s used as an adverb, Mondays describes when something happens or when an action is taken. The singular form Monday can also be used as an adverb, as in We’re closed Monday or Do you work Monday?Mondays (ending with an s) usually implies that the action or event is a regular occurrence, such as one that happens according to a schedule. For example, saying, “I work Mondays” means that you work every Monday. In contrast, saying, “I work on Monday” or “I work Monday” typically means that you are scheduled to work on the upcoming Monday. The word Mondays is used in a different way in the slang expression case of the Mondays, a humorous way of referring to the state of being grumpy or sluggish because it is a Monday. In the phrase, Mondays is used as if it were the name of a medical condition. Example: The shop is open from Tuesday through Saturday, but it’s closed Sundays and Mondays.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“You don’t have to settle for the Sunday scaries. We let Mondays ruin our Sundays. Stop. Be present in your life instead of accepting that default.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Mondays are like musicians’ Saturdays or Sundays because we work on the weekends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The judge also modified the actor’s visitation time, limiting her hours with her son to Mondays, Tuesdays and weekends between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
I am not going to calculate how many working Mondays I’ve had in my life, but even before I was working, I had a Garfield-esque disdain for the day.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
On Mondays and Thursdays, it is an accordion player named Alexandre.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
![]()
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.