Word Meanings - FRIDAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday. (more info) friqu love + dæg day; cf. Icel. Frigg name of a goddess, the wife of Odin or Wodan, OHG. Friatag, Isel. Frjadagr. AS. frigu is prob. from

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• SATURDAY
  The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday. (more info) Sæternesdæg, literally, Saturn's day, fr. L. Saturnus Saturn + AS.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• GODDESS
  1. A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex. When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty. Addison. 2. A woman of superior charms
• PRECEDENTED
  Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.
• PRECEDE
  1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. "Harm precedes not sin." Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the
• PRECEDENCE; PRECEDENCY
  1. The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. 2. The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior
• THURSDAY
  The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday. Holy Thursday. See under Holy. (more info) Icel. Thor, the god of thunder, is akin to AS. thunder; D. Donderdag Thursday, G. Donnerstag, Icel. , Sw. & Dan. Torsdag. *52. See Thor,
• FOLLOWING
  1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay. 2. Vocation; business; profession.
• FOLLOWING SURFACE
  See ABOVE
• FRIGG; FRIGGA
  The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.
• SIXTH
  1. First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth. 2. Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.
• PRECEDENTIAL
  Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions. All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity. Fuller.
• PRECEDING
  In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2. (more info) 1. Going before; -- opposed to following.
• PRECEDENT
  Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services. Shak. "A precedent injury." Bacon. Condition precedent , a condition which precede the vesting of an estate, or the accruing of a right.
• PRECEDANEOUS
  Preceding; antecedent; previous. Hammond.
• FOLLOWER
  1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer. 2. A sweetheart; a beau. A. Trollope. The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston. A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
• FOLLOW
  fylgan; akin to D. volgen, OHG. folg, G. folgen, Icel. fylgja, Sw. 1. To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with ; to accompany; to attend. It waves me forth again; I'll follow it. Shak. 2. To endeavor
• SIXTHLY
  In the sixth place. Bacon.
• SEA GODDESS
  A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.
• UNPRECEDENTED
  Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled. -- Un*prec"e*dent*ed*ly, adv.
• UNDERFOLLOW
  To follow closely or immediately after. Wyclif.
• DEMIGODDESS
  A female demigod.