Wednesday

[wenz-dey, -dee]

noun

1. the fourth day of the week, following Tuesday.

Wednesday

/ ˈwɛnzdɪ, -deɪ /

noun

1. the fourth day of the week; third day of the working week

Word History and Origins

Origin of Wednesday¹

before 950; Middle English Wednesdai, Old English *Wēdnesdæg, mutated variant of Wōdnesdæg Woden's day; cognate with Dutch Woensdag, Danish onsdag; translation of Latin Mercuriī diēs day of Mercury

Word History and Origins

Origin of Wednesday¹

Old English Wōdnes dæg Woden's day, translation of Latin mercurii dies Mercury's day; related to Old Frisian wōnsdei, Middle Dutch wōdensdach (Dutch woensdag )

Example Sentences

On Wednesday, Guzman purchased 15 dozen eggs, 25 pounds of pancake mix, 15 pounds of bacon.

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Mr Chung, 45, and his brother, spent Wednesday night on the street asking the firefighters dozens of times for updates - but they couldn't give them any.

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And on Wednesday, the Dominican Republic, a US ally in the Caribbean, told visiting US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that Washington could use an air base and an airport for its counter-narcotics operations.

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ALT5 disclosed the firings on Wednesday in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday.

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Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a post on X Wednesday that it was stopping the processing of all immigration requests of Afghan nationals “pending further review of security and vetting protocols.”

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When To Use

What does Wednesday mean?

Wednesday is the weekday between Tuesday and Thursday.In much of North and South America, where most countries (including the U.S. and Canada) consider the calendar week to begin on Sunday, Wednesday is the fourth day of the week. (In other places, where the week is considered to begin on Saturday or Monday, Wednesday is the fifth or third day of the week.)Regardless of when the week officially begins, in many places Wednesday is considered the third day of the workweek, the five-day span from Monday to Friday during which many people work (with Saturday and Sunday considered the weekend).Because Wednesday falls directly in the middle of the workweek (around what is called midweek), with two days on either side, it is sometimes informally referred to as hump day. This is a humorous way of expressing the idea that it is the day on which everyone makes it “over the hump,” as if the workweek were a hill with Wednesday as the point after which everything starts to be “downhill” toward the weekend.The word Wednesdays can be used as an adverb meaning every Wednesday or on Wednesdays, as in I work Wednesdays or The shop is closed Wednesdays.To indicate the general time of day during which something will happen on a Wednesday, the word can be followed by the general time, as in Wednesday morning, Wednesday afternoon, Wednesday evening, and Wednesday night. Example: I’m glad it’s finally Wednesday and the workweek is halfway over, but that means we still have two days to go.