Lernwerd

weekend

//wiːˈkɛnd//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for weekend

Mnemonics, your own examples, reminders…

Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
weekends

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
weekend
past (v2)
weekended
past participle (v3)
weekended
present participle
weekending
3rd person singular
weekends

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 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.
    • 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.”

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To spend the weekend.

    • We'll weekend at the beach.

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 1.Of, relating to or for the weekend.

    • I'm wearing my weekend shoes.

  2. 2.Occurring at the weekend.

Frequency

Overall

Common· #1173

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Common
General reading & writing
Common
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Related words

Word family

Etymology

From week + end.

Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century.

Cookie preferences

Choose which optional cookies to allow. Strictly necessary storage is always on.

Privacy policy