Washday (Noun)
Meaning
A day set aside for doing household laundry.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- It was washday and the entire family was gathered at the stream to do their laundry by hand.
- I always dread washday because our washing machine is old and makes a lot of noise.
- The smell of detergent and fabric softener fills the air on washday, signaling that the laundry is finally getting done.
- Since our town has a water shortage, we have to limit our washday to every other week to conserve water.
- My grandmother used to make washday more enjoyable by telling stories and singing songs while we hung the clothes outside to dry.