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weekend

noun
/wiːˈkɛnd/UK/ˈwiˌkɛnd/US/ˈwiːˌkend/

Etymology

From week + end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”).

  1. derived from *andijōną✻
  2. derived from endian
  3. derived from enden
  4. inherited from *h₂entíos✻ — “forehead; front”
  5. inherited from *andijaz✻ — “end”
  6. inherited from *andī✻
  7. inherited from ende
  8. inherited from ende
  9. compounded as weekend — “week + end”

Definitions

  1. The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath…

    The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday.

    • “They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another.
    • […] often took a few boys down there for what we North Country folk call the week-end — Saturday and Sunday; it was also used as a sanatorium if required.
    • I love a phrase of Dizzy's in one of his later letters to Lady Bradford, whom he reproaches for her addiction to what we now call week-end visits to country houses: “the monotony of organized platitude.”

  2. To spend the weekend.

    • We'll weekend at the beach.

  3. Of, relating to or for the weekend.

    • I'm wearing my weekend shoes.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Occurring at the weekend.

      • a weekend break

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA