weekend

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UK /wiːˈkɛnd/ US /ˈwiˌkɛnd/

adj 2noun 1verb 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

long

We're planning a long weekend at the beach next month with our families.

wet

We stayed indoors because it turned out to be a wet weekend.

VERB + WEEKEND

spend

WEEKEND + NOUN

break, trip, visit | home, retreat

PREP

at the ~

My family usually goes to the beach at the weekend.

at ~s

My family likes to go hiking at weekends when the weather is nice.

over the ~

My family enjoys staying at our cabin over the weekend whenever we can escape the city.

PHRASES

a weekend away/off

Definitions

noun

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.

verb

To spend the weekend.

We'll weekend at the beach.

adj

Of, relating to or for the weekend.

I'm wearing my weekend shoes.

Occurring at the weekend.

a weekend break

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Idioms & Phrases

have a good weekend

Used to wish someone a good weekend.

Example Bank

“They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another.

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[…] 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.

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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 platitud

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We'll weekend at the beach.

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I'm wearing my weekend shoes.

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a weekend break

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