weekend
Noun · VerbUS[wee-kend]/ˈwiˌkɛnd/2 syllablesalso [wee-kind] /ˈwiˌkɪnd/
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)weekends
- 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
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Translations
Noun break in the working week
- Spanish
- fin de semana
- French
- week-end
- German
- Wochenende
- Italian
- fine settimana
- 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
- Breton
- dibenn-sizhun
- Catalan
- cap de setmana
- Corsican
- fine di settimana
- Czech
- víkend
- Danish
- weekend
- Esperanto
- semajnfino
- Estonian
- nädalavahetus
- Finnish
- viikonloppu
- Georgian
- შაბათ-კვირა šabat-ḳvira
- Hebrew
- סוֹף שָׁבוּעַ sof shavúa'
- Icelandic
- helgi
- Kurdish
- dawiya hefteyê
- Latvian
- nedēļas nogale
- Lithuanian
- savaitgalis
- Malagasy
- faran'ny herinandro
- Norwegian
- helg
- Romanian
- weekend
- Scottish Gaelic
- deireadh-seachdain
- Serbo-Croatian
- vikend
- Slovak
- víkend
- Slovenian
- vikend
- Swahili
- wikendi
- Walloon
- wekene
- Welsh
- penwythnos
- Yiddish
- סוף־וואָך sof-vokh
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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]