weekend
pronunciation
How to pronounce weekend in British English:
UK [ˌwiːkˈend]
How to pronounce weekend in American English:
US [ˈwiːkend]
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- Noun:
- 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
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- Verb:
- spend the weekend
Word Origin
- weekend (n.)
- also week-end, 1630s, from week + end (n.). Originally a northern word (referring to the period from Saturday noon to Monday morning); it became general after 1878. As an adjective, "only on weekends," it is recorded from 1935. Long weekend attested from 1900; in reference to Great Britain in the period between the world wars, 1944.
Example
- 1. Do you have plans for the weekend ?
- 2. A weekend of interminable meetings , and no skiing .
- 3. One day he invited me to his house for the weekend , and I accepted gratefully .
- 4. Don 't miss it this weekend .
- 5. Russians are demonstrating again this weekend .