Skip to main content
Friday

Friday

1.0
The day between Thursday and Saturday
  • noun
  • /ˈfraɪdeɪ/
translation icon : viernes
  • I'm taking my daughter and her kids out to dinner on Friday night.
  • Monday through Friday
  • Friday night
  • Friday afternoon

I'm excited too 'cause it's Friday and we deserve it.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • For smaller venues, there might be a Friday night show in addition to two Saturday shows.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The report is due on Friday, so I need to finish it before then.

  • We'll be back on Friday for After Dark Live.

  • Anyway, guys, thank you for spending this Friday with us.

  • The first single dropped on Friday called Believe Me.

  • OK, I fly in Friday into the big easy.

  • OK, good luck on Friday and see you there.

  • I feel so alone on Friday night.

  • I'm excited too 'cause it's Friday and we deserve it.

  • When I started freelancing, I worked Monday through Friday, starting at about 7 a.m.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

Fri
vsFriday
1 1.0

A short form of Friday, the day before Saturday

is the full standard name rather than its short written form

Compounds

9 1.9

The Friday before Easter when Christians remember Jesus' death on a cross

Science Friday
  • Literature
5 3.5

A radio show that talks about science and explains new discoveries

girl Friday
  • Archaic
1 7.8

A woman who helps with many office tasks

boy Friday
  • Archaic
1 8.6

A man who helps someone by doing many different tasks

man Friday
  • Informal
1 8.4

A loyal, reliable person who helps a leader with many tasks

Surface Forms

Friday singular
Fridays plural

Morphology

Friday = Frigg + day (semi-transparent) = fri + day

The component 'day' transparently signals a weekday, but the first element is a proper name (Frigg) that is not a productive English morpheme, so the exact origin/name is not obvious to many learners.

Etymology

Friday comes from the old English name Frīġedæg, meaning 'Frigg's day', named for the Norse goddess Frigg who was connected to love and the home. So Friday was the goddess's day, and many languages do the same: Spanish 'viernes' comes from the goddess Venus. That helps explain why Friday often feels like the start of rest and pleasure.