{
    "term": "Sunday",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the day of the week after Saturday and before Monday, thought of as either the first or the last day of the week",
            "sensetop": "on Sundayon Sundayson a Sunday",
            "labels": "(informal or North American English)(especially North American English)(British English)(British English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's Sunday today, isn't it?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She went to a cooking class **last Sunday**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are you busy **next Sunday**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Sunday morning/afternoon/evening**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We'll see each other at Sunday's party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I work Sunday to Thursday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I work Sundays to Thursdays."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We'll meet on Sunday *(= next Sunday)*.",
                    "contextForm": "on Sunday"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We met on Sunday *(= last Monday)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We'll meet Sunday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The office is closed on Sundays *(= every Sunday)*.",
                    "contextForm": "on Sundays"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The office is closed Sundays."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was born on a Sunday.",
                    "contextForm": "on a Sunday"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I always do yoga on a Sunday *(= every Sunday)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I went to Lisbon on Wednesday, and came back the following Sunday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘When did the accident happen?’ ‘It was the Sunday *(= the Sunday of the week we are talking about)*.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Come back Sunday week *(= a week after next Sunday)*."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a newspaper published on a Sunday",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to emphasize that something will never happen or will take a very long time",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You won't find it, not in a month of Sundays."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is possible to learn to skydive in Britain, but with our weather it might take a month of Sundays to do it."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "your best clothes",
            "labels": "(informal, humorous)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I put on my Sunday best for the occasion."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsʌndeɪ//ˈsʌndi/",
                "audio": "su/Sunday/sunday_1_gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsʌndeɪ//ˈsʌndi/",
                "audio": "su/Sunday/sunday__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English Sunnandæg ‘day of the sun’, translation of Latin dies solis; compare with Dutch zondag and German Sonntag."
}