# weekend
## English
### Alternative forms

* week-end (dated)
* w/e (occasional use)

### Etymology

From week +‎ end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /wiːˈkɛnd/, /ˈwiːˌkɛnd/
* (US) IPA: /ˈwiˌkɛnd/
* (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA: /ˈwiːˌkend/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnd, -iːkɛnd
* Homophone: weakened (some accents)

### Noun

weekend (plural weekends)
* The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in western countries, Saturday and Sunday.
** 1874 July–December, W. Senior, “With the Herring Fleet”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 704:“They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another.
** 1903, Francis Markham with Sir Clements Robert Markham, Recollections of a town boy at Westminster, 1849–1855, page 34:[…] 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.
** 1921 June 21, The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, K.G., chapter XX, in Memories and Reflections 1852–1927, volume 2, Cassell and Company, published 1928, →OCLC, page 197: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 platitude.”

#### Usage notes

* Historically in North America and parts of Europe, people would often work on Saturday as well, or at least until noon on Saturday. Thus the “weekend” might begin at noon or later on Saturday in older texts.
To describe the soonest upcoming weekend:
* (UK, Australia, New Zealand) “at the weekend”, “on the weekend”, “this weekend”, “for the weekend”
** 1886, New Zealand Parliament, “Parliamentary debates”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 324, page 2371:Let them work at their ordinary jobs during the week, and then take them out of circulation at the weekend, which is usually the time when the trouble is ...
** 2009, Great Britain House of Commons: Business and Enterprise Committee, “Pre-appointment Hearing with the Chairman-elect of Ofcom, Dr. Colette Bowe”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 16:Whether it is on the BBC, ITV or commercial radio does not really matter. ...can give you a radio example of two things I was listening to at the weekend.
* (US, Canada) “on the weekend”, “this weekend”, “for the weekend” (“at the weekend” is not used)
** 2002, United States Senate: Committee on Armed Services, Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 2002, page 722:I am going to Moscow on the weekend to participate in the discussion, ...

#### Derived terms

* dirty weekend
* freakend
* hen weekend
* like a wet weekend
* long weekend
* lost weekend
* nonweekend
* something for the weekend
* stag weekend
* weekend bag
* weekend dad
* weekend effect
* weekender
* weekendful
* weekendly
* weekend warrior
* weekendy

#### Related terms

* weekday

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: ويكند
* → Armenian: վիքենդ (vikʻend)
* → Czech: víkend
* → Danish: weekend
* → French: weekend
* → German: Wochenende (calque)
* → Hungarian: víkend
* → Italian: weekend
* → Macedonian: викенд (vikend)
* → Dutch: weekend
* → Polish: weekend
* → Romanian: weekend
* → Russian: уик-энд (uik-end)
* → Serbo-Croatian: vìkend
* → Slovak: víkend
* → Swedish: weekend

#### Translations
### Verb

weekend (third-person singular simple present weekends, present participle weekending, simple past and past participle weekended)
* To spend the weekend.
    We'll weekend at the beach.

### Adjective

weekend (not comparable)
* Of, relating to or for the weekend.
    I'm wearing my weekend shoes.
* Occurring at the weekend.
    a weekend break

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “weekend”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ weekend, week-end at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

### Further reading

* weekend on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English weekend.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈʋiːˌɡ̊ɛnˀd̥], [ˈwiːˌɡ̊ɛnd̥]

### Noun

weekend c (singular definite weekenden, plural indefinite weekender)
* weekend

#### See also

* weekend on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English weekend.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋikɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: week‧end

### Noun

weekend n (plural weekenden or weekends, diminutive weekendje n)
* weekend

#### Synonyms

* weekeinde

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English weekend.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wi.kɛnd/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

weekend m (plural weekends)
* post-1990 spelling of week-end
    Synonym: fin de semaine

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* week-end

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English weekend.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wiˈkɛnd/
* Rhymes: -ɛnd

### Noun

weekend m (invariable)
* weekend
    Synonym: fine settimana

### References

* ↑ week-end in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English weekend.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwi.kɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ikɛnt
* Syllabification: wee‧kend

### Noun

weekend m inan (related adjective weekendowy)
* weekend (break in the working week)
    Synonym: dwudzionek

#### Derived terms

* weekendowicz
* weekendować impf

#### Related terms

* weekendowo

### Further reading

* weekend in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* weekend in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* week-end — dated

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English weekend. First attested in 1970.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈuj.kend/, /ˈwi.kend/
* Hyphenation: week‧end
* Rhymes: -ujkend, -ikend

### Noun

weekend n (plural weekenduri)
* weekend

#### Declension
### References

* weekend in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Swedish
### Etymology

From English weekend.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wiːk.ɛnd/, /viːk.ɛnd/

### Noun

weekend c
* a weekend (break in the working week)

#### Synonyms

* helg
* veckoslut

### References

* weekend in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* weekend in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* weekend in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)