Friday
noun /ˈfraɪdeɪ/, /ˈfraɪdi/
/ˈfraɪdeɪ/, /ˈfraɪdi/
- [countable, uncountable](abbreviation Fri.)the day of the week after Thursday and before Saturday
- It's Friday today, isn't it?
- She went to dance class last Friday.
- Are you busy next Friday?
- Friday morning/afternoon/evening
- We'll discuss this at Friday's meeting.
- I work Friday to Tuesday.
- I work Fridays to Tuesdays.
- on Friday We'll meet on Friday (= next Friday).
- We met on Friday (= last Friday).
- (informal or North American English) We'll meet Friday.
- on Fridays The museum is closed on Fridays (= every Friday).
- (especially North American English) The museum is closed Fridays.
- on a Friday He was born on a Friday.
- I always do yoga on a Friday (= every Friday).
- I went to Nairobi on Monday, and came back the following Friday.
- (British English) ‘When did the accident happen?’ ‘It was the Friday (= the Friday of the week we are talking about).’
- (British English) Come back Friday week (= a week after next Friday).
- (also Man Friday)a character in Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. He becomes Crusoe's faithful servant after Crusoe saves him from being eaten by cannibals. The phrase Man Friday or Girl Friday was sometimes used to describe an assistant who did many different jobs in an office, but is now quite old-fashioned. see also girl Friday, man Friday
Word OriginOriginally translated from the Latin for ‘day of the planet Venus’ Veneris dies and named after the Germanic goddess Frigga.