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    Sunday best

    noun

    • 1. a person's best clothes, worn on Sundays or special occasions: "the children wore their Sunday best"
  2. Sunday best. noun. uk / ˌsʌn.deɪ ˈbest / us / ˌsʌn.deɪ ˈbest /. your Sunday best old-fashioned. Add to word list. your best clothes, which you wear on special occasions. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Clothing - general words. all-in-one.

    • English (US)

      Sunday best meaning: 1. your best clothes, which you wear on...

  3. If you are in your Sunday best, you are wearing your best clothes, which you only wear for special occasions. They looked as if they were dressed in their Sunday best, the girls in clean white dresses, the boys in dark trousers and plain white shirts.

  4. The meaning of SUNDAY BEST is one's best clothing worn to church or on special occasions.

  5. Sunday best definition: one's best clothes, esp regarded as those most suitable for churchgoing. See examples of SUNDAY BEST used in a sentence.

  6. Define Sunday best. Sunday best synonyms, Sunday best pronunciation, Sunday best translation, English dictionary definition of Sunday best. n. One's best and often most formal clothing.

  7. 3 days ago · Noun. [edit] Sunday best (uncountable) (idiomatic) A person's finest clothing, especially the clothes one reserves to wear to church on Sunday. Synonyms. [edit] roast-meat clothes (dated) Sunday-go-to-meeting. Translations. [edit] ± person's finest clothing. See also. [edit] endimanched. Categories: English terms with audio links. English lemmas.

  8. One's finest clothes, as in They were all in their Sunday best for the photographer. This expression alludes to reserving one's best clothes for going to church; indeed, an older idiom is Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes ( meeting here meaning “prayer meeting”).