Wednesdays

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of Wednesday.

   Some months contain five Wednesdays instead of the usual four.

   The two Wednesdays before the holiday were unusually busy at the store.

   Note

   The ordinary count noun, which takes numbers and determiners like any plural: five Wednesdays, the two Wednesdays before the holiday. It shares its spelling with the bare-time adverb, and the preposition tells them apart. In "meet on Wednesdays" it is the noun, as in Karla Adam's 2022 report on King Charles III. In "meet Wednesdays" it is the adverb.

2. 2
   adverbCanadaUS

   On Wednesday, or on each successive Wednesday as a recurring event.

   The clinic offers free screenings Wednesdays throughout the fall.

   Wednesdays she works late, so dinner is always early on those days.

   Note

   A North American habit: the bare plural does the work of a whole prepositional phrase, so "Wednesdays we would go bowling" means "on Wednesdays we would go bowling." Grammatically it is an adverbial genitive of time. British English prefers to keep the preposition. The adverb can open a sentence or follow a verb directly, as in "closed Wednesdays." Like other time adverbs of its kind, it has no comparative.

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