Wednesday

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wednesday \Wednes"day\ (?; 48), n. [OE. wednesdai, wodnesdei,
     AS. W[=o]dnes d[ae]g, i. e., Woden's day (a translation of L.
     dies Mercurii); fr. W[=o]den the highest god of the Teutonic
     peoples, but identified with the Roman god Mercury; akin to
     OS. W[=o]dan, OHG. Wuotan, Icel. O[eth]inn, D. woensdag
     Wednesday, Icel. [=o][eth]insdagr, Dan. & Sw. onsdag. See


     {Day}, and cf. {Woden}, {Wood}, a.]
     The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Ash Wednesday}. See in the Vocabulary.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Wednesday
       n : the fourth day of the week; the third working day [syn: {Wed}]