sunday best

1. 1.

   the best attire you have which is worn to church on Sunday

   SynonymsSunday clothes

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   colloquialism

Questions about sunday best

What does sunday best mean?

sunday best means "the best attire you have which is worn to church on Sunday".

What is another word for sunday best?

Close synonyms include Sunday clothes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sunday best a common word?

sunday best 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.