Lord's Day
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7.2
- noun
- /lɔrdz deɪ/
:
Día del Señor
- Some people believe that rest on the Lord's Day is essential for spiritual renewal.
- Lord's Day is Sunday
Examples
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But we pray pretty much each Lord's Day corporately for our leaders and our country.
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Along with St. Ignatius, the Didache (an early Christian manual of sorts) shows that this term (The Lord's Day) was used early on to designate the day when Christians gathered to celebrate the Eucharist.
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I never travel on the Lord's day if I can help it.
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It's the Lord's day today.
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Have a blessed Lord's day.
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For Christians, we observe the Lord's Day.
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"Are you the sort of men who profane the Lord's Day?" Christopher hadn't even known that it was Sunday.
Fiction book (1993) -
"They (the Christians) have given up keeping the sabbath, and now order their lives by the Lord's Day instead—the day when life first dawned for us, thanks to Him and His death."
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On the Lord's Day, many families gather to attend church services together.
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For Christians, the Lord's Day is a time for worship and reflection.
Synonyms
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1.0
A day that people often use for rest or worship
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7.4
A weekly day for rest and religious activities, for example Saturday or Sunday
Surface Forms
Morphology
Lord's + day
The phrase is compositionally interpretable as "the day belonging to the Lord," so a B1 learner who knows 'Lord' and 'day' will infer it refers to a religiously observed day. However, identifying that this specifically means Sunday and the associated practices (day of rest and worship) depends on cultural/religious knowledge rather than pure lexical composition, so the meaning is not fully predictable from the parts alone.
Etymology
Lord's Day comes from early Christians who called Sunday the day of the Lord because they celebrated Jesus' resurrection then, so people set the day aside for worship and rest. That's why today Lord's Day means a 'day of rest and worship'.