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weekend - 3 dictionary results

week⋅end

[week-end, -end]
–noun
1. the end of a week, esp. the period of time between Friday evening and Monday morning: We spent the weekend at Virginia Beach.
2. this period as extended by one or more holidays, days off, or the like, that immediately precede or follow: We're getting a three-day weekend at Christmas.
3. any two-day period taken or given regularly as a weekly rest period from one's work: I have to work at the hospital on Saturdays and Sundays, so I take my weekends on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
–adjective
4. of, for, or on a weekend: a weekend pass; a weekend excursion.
–verb (used without object)
5. to pass the weekend, as at a place: They weekended at their country place.

Origin:
1875–80; week + end 1
week·end   (wēk'ěnd')   
n.  The end of the week, especially the period from Friday evening through Sunday evening.
intr.v.   week·end·ed, week·end·ing, week·ends
To spend weekends or a weekend.
week'ends' adv.

weekend 
1638, from week + end. Originally a northern word (referring to the period from Saturday noon to Monday morning); it became general after 1878. As an adj., meaning "only on weekends," it is recorded from 1935.
Language Translation for : weekend
Spanish: fin de semana,
German: das Wochenende, Wochenend-…,
Japanese: 週末
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