playday
noun
playday is a noun meaning “A day devoted to play or fun” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-L-A-Y-D-A-Y, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of playday is playdays.
What does playday mean?
noun
- 1
A day devoted to play or fun.
July 28 1728, Jonathan Swift, My Lady's Lamentation and Complaint against the Dean To ease a poor lady, And beg her a playday. So may you be seen No more in the spleen!
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce playday?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-playday.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of playday
- playdays plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is playday?
Playday appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does playday come from?
From play + day.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).