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Lord's Day
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Lord's day
English
Alternative forms
en Lord’s Day
en Lord’s day Revelation 1:10: English Standard Version (ESV)
en Lord's day
en Lordsday obsolete
Etymology
A en la-ecc diēs Dominicus y, either directly or as a later development of en non dróttinsdagr Lord's day
Noun
Lord's Day
Sunday, the first day of the week, particularly as the Christian Sabbath.
en 1957 Parliament of the United Kingdom Naval Discipline Act 1957 Part I, section 1 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1957/53/pdfs/ukpga_19570053_en.pdf 1 All officers in command of Her Majesty’s ships shall cause public worship of Almighty God to be solemnly, orderly and reverently performed in their respective ships, and shall take care that prayers and preaching, by the chaplains of those ships, be performed diligently and that the Lord’s Day be observed. https://web.archive.org/web/20260926032211/https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1957/53/pdfs/ukpga_19570053_en.pdf 26 September 2026
Today was Sunday, and Aunt Alexandra was positively irritable on the Lord’s Day. I guess it was her Sunday corset.
Synonyms
en Christian Sabbath
en First Day
en first-day Sabbath
en Sabbath
Related terms
en Jewish Sabbath
en Muslim Sabbath
en LORD’s holy day Isaiah 58:13: (i.e., the biblical seventh-day Sabbath); International Standard Version (ISV); New English Translation (NET)
en Shabbat from Hebrew, en shabbes Shabbes from Yiddish
en Seventh Day
en seventh-day Sabbath
Translations
Lord's Day
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 主日 zyu2 jat6
Mandarin: cmn 主日 zhǔrì
Dutch: nl dag des Heren m
Finnish: fi lepopäivä
French: fr jour du Seigneur m
German: de Herrentag m, de Herrntag m, de Tag des Herrn m
Japanese: ja 主日 しゅじつ, shujitsu
Koine Greek: grc-koi Κυριακή f
Korean: ko 주일(主日)
Latin: la diēs Dominicus
Polish: pl Dzień Pański m
Swahili: sw Siku ya Bwana
See also
en Christmas Day holy day Jesus Day
en Christianity Day