Definitions for weekend
ˈwikˌɛnd, -ˈɛndweek·end

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. weekendverb

   a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday

2. weekendverb

   spend the weekend

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. weekendnoun

   The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in western countries, Saturday and Sunday. Occasionally abbreviated to w/e.

2. weekendverb

   To spend the weekend.

   We'll weekend at the beach.

3. weekendadjective

   Of, relating to or for the weekend.

   I'm wearing my weekend shoes

4. weekendadjective

   Occurring at the weekend.

   a weekend break

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1. weekend

   The weekdays and weekend are the complementary parts of the week devoted to labour and rest, respectively. The legal weekdays (British English), or workweek (American English), is the part of the seven-day week devoted to working. In most of the world, the workweek is from Monday to Friday and the weekend is Saturday and Sunday. A weekday or workday is any day of the working week. Other institutions often follow this pattern, such as places of education. The constituted weekend has varying definitions, based on determined calendar days, designated period of time, and/or regional definition of the working week (e.g., commencing after 5:00 p.m. on Friday and lasting until 6:00 p.m. on Sunday). Sometimes the term "weekend" is expanded to include the time after work hours on the last workday of the week (e.g., Friday evening is often referred to as the start of the weekend). In some Christian traditions, Sunday is the "day of rest and worship". The Jewish Shabbat or Biblical Sabbath lasts from sunset on Friday to the fall of full darkness on Saturday; as a result, the weekend in Israel is observed on Friday–Saturday. Some Muslim-majority countries historically instituted a Thursday–Friday weekend. Today, many of these countries, in the interests of furthering business trade and cooperation, have shifted to Friday–Saturday or Saturday–Sunday as in the case of Saudi Arabia and UAE.The Christian Sabbath is just one day each week, but the preceding day (the Jewish Sabbath) came to be taken as a holiday as well in the 20th century. This shift has been accompanied by a reduction in the total number of hours worked per week. The present-day concept of the "weekend" first arose in the industrial north of Britain in the early 19th century. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America union was the first to successfully demand a five-day work week in 1929. Some countries have adopted a one-day weekend, i.e. either Sunday only (in seven countries), Friday only (in Djibouti, Iran and Somalia), or Saturday only (in Nepal). However, most countries have adopted a two-day weekend, whose days differ according to religious tradition, i.e. either Friday and Saturday, or Saturday and Sunday, or Friday and Sunday (in Brunei Darussalam, Aceh province (Indonesia) and state of Sarawak (Malaysia)), with the previous evening post-work often considered part of the weekend. Proposals continue to be put forward to reduce the number of days or hours worked per week, on the basis of predicted social and economic benefits.

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1. weekend

   A weekend is a period of time that typically extends from Friday evening through Sunday evening, which is traditionally a time of rest or leisure and a break from school, work, or any other formal obligations. It's commonly recognized in many cultures as the two days (Saturday and Sunday) that conclude the standard working or school week.

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1. weekend

   A specific time and days of the week.

   The weekend in Europe is Saturday and Sunday, in Saudi Arabia its Friday and Saturday.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020  

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1. weekend

   Song lyrics by weekend -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by weekend on the Lyrics.com website.

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1. • Spend

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'weekend' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1847

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'weekend' in Written Corpus Frequency: #872

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'weekend' in Nouns Frequency: #641

How to pronounce weekend?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say weekend in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of weekend in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of weekend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of weekend in a Sentence

1. Pamela Ribon:

   Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

2. Paul Dergarabedian:

   Memorial Day weekend has gone from being the single most important weekend of the summer to a weekend that has diminished in its power and importance to the overall bottom line.

3. The Australian:

   I’m happy now. Or happier. It’s only seventh but how the weekend has been going, I think we’ve got to be really happy with that, qualifying was the first time I got to use a soft tire this weekend and we chipped away at it. That’s what I was most pleased about, the progress we made through the session. So that’s promising.

4. Rory McIlroy:

   I don't like missing cuts, you want to be playing on the weekend, and I'm not there. I'm not going to be playing this weekend, which is not nice.

5. Kurt Busch:

   This makes last weekend feel so much stupider, i wish we would have swept last weekend, too, with two weekend sweeps in a row. But well take what we got today.

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