Meanings
plural weeknights
- The evening of a weekday.
For Ms. Park, a forensic chemist for the New Jersey State Police who has since retired, bulgogi was a weeknight workhorse, even without the convenience of pre-sliced meat.
2021 July 23, Eric Kim, “Bulgogi, Any Way You Slice It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021, Food1 more example
On weeknights other than Saturdays, the last Bedford train leaves St. Pancras at 10.35 instead of 10.0 p.m. and is 20 min. faster, and the last Luton train at 11.35 instead of 11.15 p.m.
1960 February 28, “The dieselised St. Pancras suburban service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*weyg-
- Proto-Germanic*wikǭ
- Proto-West Germanic*wikā
- Old Englishwice
- Middle Englishwyke
- Englishweek
- Englishnight
- Englishweeknight
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 平日夜晚
- 平日夜晚 (píngrì yèwǎn)evening of a weekday
German Abend unter der Woche
- Abend unter der Wocheevening of a weekday
Polish noc między dniami powszednimi
- noc między dniami powszednimievening of a weekday
Cite this entry
weeknight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weeknight
“weeknight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weeknight. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “weeknight,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weeknight.
Source: weeknight on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.