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{
"term": "Thursday",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the day of the week after Wednesday and before Friday",
"sensetop": "on Thursdayon Thursdayson a Thursday",
"labels": "(informal or North American English)(especially North American English)(British English)(British English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's Thursday today, isn't it?"
},
{
"text": "She started English lessons **last Thursday**."
},
{
"text": "Are you busy **next Thursday**?"
},
{
"text": "**Thursday morning/afternoon/evening**"
},
{
"text": "We'll discuss this at Thursday's meeting."
},
{
"text": "I work Thursday to Monday."
},
{
"text": "I work Thursdays to Mondays."
},
{
"text": "We'll meet on Thursday *(= next Thursday)*.",
"contextForm": "on Thursday"
},
{
"text": "We met on Thursday *(= last Thursday)*."
},
{
"text": "We'll meet Thursday."
},
{
"text": "The museum is closed on Thursdays *(= every Thursday)*.",
"contextForm": "on Thursdays"
},
{
"text": "The museum is closed Thursdays."
},
{
"text": "He was born on a Thursday.",
"contextForm": "on a Thursday"
},
{
"text": "I always do yoga on a Thursday *(= every Thursday)*."
},
{
"text": "I went to Oslo on Sunday, and came back the following Thursday."
},
{
"text": "‘When did the accident happen?’ ‘It was the Thursday *(= the Thursday of the week we are talking about)*.’"
},
{
"text": "Come back Thursday week *(= a week after next Thursday)*."
}
],
"topics": ["Time"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈθɜːzdeɪ//ˈθɜːzdi/",
"audio": "th/Thursday/thursday_1_gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈθɜːrzdeɪ//ˈθɜːrzdi/",
"audio": "th/Thursday/thursday__us_1_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "From the Old English for ‘day of thunder’, translated from Latin Jovis dies ‘Jupiter’s day’. Jupiter was the god associated with thunder."
}