# Wednesday

Pronunciation: say "WENZ-day" /ˈwɛnzdeɪ/

## Noun

1. The day of the week falling between Tuesday and Thursday: the fourth day in many religious traditions and the third under the ISO 8601 standard.
   - Simple: The day of the week that comes after Tuesday and before Thursday.
   - _Her piano lessons land on Wednesday, right in the middle of the week._
   - _The committee scheduled the final vote for the first Wednesday in March._

## Adverb

2. On the day falling between Tuesday and Thursday; used to say that something happens on that day. *(Canada, US)*
   - Simple: On the day between Tuesday and Thursday.
   - _I'll drop the documents off Wednesday if that works for you._
   - _They're planning to announce the results Wednesday morning._

## Origin

From Middle English Wednesday, an i-mutated form going back to unrecorded Old English *wēdnesdæġ (beside wōdnesdæġ) and Proto-West Germanic *Wōdinas dag, a variant of *Wōdanas dag, literally "Woden's day." It is a calque of Latin diēs Mercuriī ("day of Mercury") and Greek "day of Hermes," made by associating the god Odin (Woden) with Mercury and Hermes. It is cognate with Dutch woensdag and Swedish onsdag.

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