Sundays

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of Sunday.

   Her Sundays were devoted to long walks and quiet reading.

   The museum offers free entry on the first Sundays of each month.

   Note

   The plural reaches beyond the calendar. Sunday can also name a newspaper published that day, or a comic strip printed in one, so in informal use the Sundays can mean the Sunday papers or their strips. The attributive uses, as in a Sunday painter or one's Sunday best, describe rather than count, so they never take the -s. Like every weekday name, the plural keeps its capital.

2. 2
   adverbCanadaUS

   Regularly on Sunday; each and every Sunday.

   The diner serves brunch Sundays until noon.

   I work Sundays, so I take Mondays off instead.

   Note

   A North American habit: the day name works as an adverb on its own, with no preposition, as in stores open Sundays or I work Sundays. In American and Canadian English this bare form is the ordinary choice. British usage generally prefers the phrase on Sundays, so a writer addressing an international audience is safer keeping the preposition.

3. 3
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of Sunday.

   He Sundays at the family farm whenever he can get away.

   The whole crew Sundays at the shore during the summer.

   Note

   This spelling has three jobs. Besides the plural noun and the North American adverb, it is also the present-tense form of a verb meaning to spend Sunday somewhere. The verb usually takes a place or companions after it: Sundays at the farm, Sundays with friends. To tell it from the adverb, look at the slot it fills. In he Sundays at the shore it is the main verb. In he works Sundays it only says when.

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