weekend

weekend
week|end1 W2S1 [ˌwi:kˈend ˈwi:kend US ˈwi:kend] n
Saturday and Sunday, especially considered as time when you do not work
▪ Are you doing anything nice this weekend ?
last/next weekend
(=the weekend before or after this one)
at the weekend
BrE on the weekend AmE
▪ I never work at the weekend.
▪ What are you doing on the weekend?
at weekends
BrE on weekends AmE
▪ I only see him at weekends.
▪ Tony has been unwell over the weekend (=during the weekend) .
▪ We're going to Paris for a long weekend (=Saturday and Sunday, and also Friday or Monday, or both) .
weekend cottage/cabin etc
(=a place in the country where you spend your weekends)
→dirty weekend at ↑dirty1 (2)
weekend 2
weekend2 v [I always + adverb/preposition]
to spend the weekend somewhere
▪ We're weekending on the coast.

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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