weekend

sustantivoverboadjetivocorriente en diálogos

Reino Unido//wiːˈkɛnd//
Estados Unidos//ˈwiˌkɛnd//
Australia//ˈwiːˌkend//

The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday.

sustantivo

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.
[…] often took a few boys down there for what we North Country folk call the week-end — Saturday and Sunday; it was also used as a sanatorium if required.
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.”
Yes. Though based on my thorough sampling of the trend, cold pork pies are tragically absent from girl dinner plates. Perhaps because, as noted by many TikTok users – and over the weekend both Today and the New York Times – many of these girl dinners are “suspiciously low cal”.

Etimología

From week + end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”).

verbo

1
To spend the weekend.
We'll weekend at the beach.

adjetivo

1
Of, relating to or for the weekend.
I'm wearing my weekend shoes.
2
Occurring at the weekend.
a weekend break

Formas

plural: weekends
pasado: weekended
participio: weekended
gerundio: weekending
3.ª persona del singular: weekends

Weed · A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.weeds · Clothes.week · Any period of seven consecutive days.

weekend · The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday.

weekends · At weekends.weekly · Once every week.Weekly · A surname.

Las páginas vecinas — El orden alfabético sigue las reglas del idioma, no el valor de los bytes: un acento solo desempata entre dos palabras por lo demás idénticas, y la Ñ es una letra propia con su propia sección.