Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The last part of the week, typically from Friday evening through Sunday evening, but sometimes including other adjacent days, especially when seen as a time of leisure or recreation.
- intransitive verb To spend weekends or a weekend.
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- noun The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or
sabbath day. Thus in western countries,Saturday andSunday . Occasionally abbreviated to w/e. - verb To spend the weekend.
- adjective Of, relating to or for the weekend.
- adjective Occurring at the weekend.
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Examples
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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.
Wired Top Stories Matthew Shechmeister 2011
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Looks like this weekend is the start of the Oscar Hype machine.
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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.
Robert Lepage Canoes and Cooks in Quebec Javier Espinoza 2011
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The last district swing of the weekend is almost universally called a “Victory Tour.”
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My wine of the weekend is the Channing Daughters 2007 Scutttlehole Chardonnay.
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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.
Friends 2009
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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.
“The Boys Are Back in Town” by Christopher Golden (Spectra, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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Looks like this weekend is the start of the Oscar Hype machine.
Flixnjoystix.com! » Bobert@the Movies!A Quick Look At The Weekend’s Cinematic Offerings! 2009
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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.
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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.
July 2009 2009
BrainyBabe commented on the word weekend
"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.
December 24, 2008