day of the week

1. 1.

   any one of the seven days in a week

   Broadercalendar day

   Narrowerrest dayweekday

   Part ofweek

Questions about day of the week

What does day of the week mean?

day of the week means "any one of the seven days in a week".

Is day of the week a common word?

day of the week is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.