weekend

plural weekends · alternative dated week-end · alternative w/e

1. 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.

   1874 July–December, W. Senior, “With the Herring Fleet”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 704

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   […] 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.

   1903, Francis Markham with Sir Clements Robert Markham, Recollections of a town boy at Westminster, 1849–1855, page 34

   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.”

   1921 June 21, The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, K.G., chapter XX, in Memories and Reflections 1852–1927, volume 2, Cassell and Company, published 1928, →OCLC, page 197

   Yes. Though based on my thorough sampling of the trend, cold pork pies are tragically absent from girl dinner plates. Perhaps because, as noted by many TikTok users – and over the weekend both Today and the New York Times – many of these girl dinners are “suspiciously low cal”.

   2023 July 10, Alyx Gorman, Yvonne C Lam, “Explain it to me quickly: What is a TikTok ‘girl dinner’ and should I eat one tonight?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2023, retrieved 10 Jul 2023

present singular third person weekends · participle present weekending · participle past weekended · past weekended · alternative dated week-end · alternative w/e

1. To spend the weekend.

   We'll weekend at the beach.

alternative dated week-end · alternative w/e

1. not comparableOf, relating to or for the weekend.

   I'm wearing my weekend shoes.

2. not comparableOccurring at the weekend.

   a weekend break