Saturday

From Middle English Saterday, from Old English sæterdæġ, earlier sæternesdæġ (“Saterday”, literally “Saturn's day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”).

• enPR: săʹtər-dā, săʹtər-di
• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/, /ˈsæt.ə.di/

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  • (Northumbria) IPA^(key): /ˈsæt.ə.də/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsæt.ɚ.deɪ/, [ˈsæɾ.ɚ.deɪ̯], /ˈsæt.ɚ.di/, [ˈsæɾ.ɚ.di]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsæt.ə.dæɪ/
• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑːt.ə.deɪ/, /ˈsæ-/
• Hyphenation: Sat‧ur‧day
• Rhymes: -ætədeɪ, -ætədi, -ætəɹdeɪ

Saturday (plural Saturdays)

2. The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.

   Synonym: (Quakerism) Seventh Day

   • 2023 April 27, Laura He, “China may have to bail out one of its poorest provinces”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     The Beijing-based firm — one of four funds created by the Chinese government in 1999 to process the bad loans of state-owned banks — announced Saturday that it would send a group of 50 experts to the province to help it “prevent and defuse risks” and “bail out” the real estate industry.

   • 2025 February 1, Kevin Liptak, “With stiff tariffs he promised now in place, Trump opens a new trade war”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday.

• Sat, Sat. (abbreviations)

• S, Sa
• ♄ (archaic)

• day

• Tok Pisin: Sarere

Saturday (not comparable)

1. (US, Canada, informal in UK) On Saturday.

Saturday (third-person singular simple present Saturdays, present participle Saturdaying, simple past and past participle Saturdayed)

1. (uncommon, creative) To spend Saturday (at a place or doing an activity).
   • 1913, Bell Telephone News‎^[3], volume 3, page 5:

     Mr. Angus Hibbard, of New York, Fridayed and Saturdayed in Chicago, for the show and banquet.

• days of the week (appendix): Sunday · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday ^[edit]

Saturday

1. alternative form of Saterday