Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The end of the week, especially the period from Friday evening through Sunday evening.
- v. To spend weekends or a weekend.
Wiktionary
Examples
“The subjects of Darkon take the term "weekend warrior" too literally, but get a healthy release from suspending their mundane stresses. , by contrast, is a blunt but captivating melodrama, reminding us that wading too far into fantasy can be a most dangerous game.”
“The high point for his weekend is his ten-year high school reunion, which begins Friday night with a meeting with Stacy, a former friend who has become an interesting and beautiful woman.”
“This weekend is our reunion and tonight Liz and I had the chance to gather with several Sunset alum and their partners for a “pre-union” get together.”
“Looks like this weekend is the start of the Oscar Hype machine.”
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“This weekend is the last chance to take the HWAT art trail in 2009, visiting artist studios around Norfolk and Suffolk in the UK.”
“My wine of the weekend is the Channing Daughters 2007 Scutttlehole Chardonnay.”
“In the theater, what we call the weekend would normally not be a Friday-Saturday but a Sunday-Monday because we perform until Saturday evening or sometimes we would have a matinee on the Sunday.”
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“The last district swing of the weekend is almost universally called a “Victory Tour.””
“The Capital Weather Gang reminds us that this weekend is the D.C. WeatherFest, part of the larger Celebrate Science Expo on the National Mall.”
“Not to mention that the weekend is the only time for some people to hunt given they work on the weekday.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘weekend’.
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Time
clock, forever, never, ever, ago, when, then, now, past, present, future, timeline and 119 more...
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alpha omega αώ terms
two words that say it all and contrast/complement one another
startling end, az wy, az wye, round trip, circle around, tune gap, begin end, collect lection, lectio lectitandos, dash all, together alone, go-slow stopwatch and 64 more...
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Phrases from British novels, between ...
lust legs and lip..., lawner, clettering, cletter, big business, pointless, feckless, aimless, graceless, something nasty i..., cold comfort, mollock and 61 more...
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Days Off
vacation, day off, holiday, hols, furlough, gite, busman's holiday, staycation, honeymoon, babymoon, sick day, PTO and 23 more...
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Faintheart's Words
onomatopoeia, no, terrafactive, word, faint, heart, joy, quixotic, karla, half, amp, tardis and 181 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Concepts
The world falls into place when you discover that there is a name for that amorphous idea that previously you were only able to half-conceive of.
liberation theology, heteronormative, transliterate, transliteration, dhimmi, dotsam and netsam, infinite loop, cliterati, weekend, morula, hefted
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chimes at midnight, the trial, touch of evil, fanny and alexander, scenes from a mar..., three colors: red, the third man, notorious, band of outsiders, happy together, double indemnity, persona and 67 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for weekend.
BrainyBabe "At the time of Yashima's arrival, one of the most firmly established institutions in the social life of England was the weekend: that is to say, the law by which, on the fifth or sixth day of the week, those who did work abandoned it, and fled into congenial surroundings to recover, while those who did none bestirred themselves, and went and did none somewhere else." --''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931. Dec 23, 2008