weekend

Noun · Verb
US[wee-kend]/ˈwiˌkɛnd/2 syllablesalso [wee-kind] /ˈwiˌkɪnd/

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)weekends

  1. a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one SundayType of time period, period of timePart of week, hebdomadParts Sunday, Saturday

Verb (1)weekends

  1. spend the weekendMore general spend, pass
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Translations

Noun break in the working week

French
week-end
Portuguese
fim de semana
Turkish
hafta sonu
Russian
выходны́е vyxodnýje
Arabic
نِهَايَة الْأُسْبُوع nihāyat al-ʔusbūʕ
Chinese
周末 zhōumò
Japanese
週末 shūmatsu
36 more languages
Dutch
weekend
Polish
weekend
Swedish
veckoslut
Greek
σαββατοκύριακο savvatokýriako
Korean
주말 jumal
Indonesian
akhir pekan
Vietnamese
cuối tuần
Hungarian
hétvége
Portuguese (PT)
fim de semana
Chinese (Trad.)
週末 zhōumò
Albanian
fundjavë
Czech
víkend
Danish
weekend
Esperanto
semajnfino
Georgian
შაბათ-კვირა šabat-ḳvira
Hebrew
סוֹף שָׁבוּעַ sof shavúa'
Icelandic
helgi
Lithuanian
savaitgalis
Norwegian
helg
Romanian
weekend
Scottish Gaelic
deireadh-seachdain
Serbo-Croatian
vikend
Slovak
víkend
Slovenian
vikend
Swahili
wikendi
Walloon
wekene
Yiddish
סוף־וואָך sof-vokh

The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Week-end \Week"-end"\, n. The end of the week, usually comprising the period from Friday evening to Monday morning, observed commonly as a period of respite from work or school; as, to visit one for a week-end; also, a house party during a week-end. Contrasted to work days.

Note: Where work days continue throught Saturday morning, the weekend starts on Saturday at noon. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

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