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Definition: Weekday |
WeekdayAdjective1. Occurring every day of the week except Sunday (and sometimes Saturday); "his weekday commute"; "a weekday newspaper". Noun1. Any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "weekday" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Crosswords: Weekday |
| English words defined with "weekday": Boxing Day ♦ feria. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "weekday": Alta Vista, annual average weekday traffic. (references) |
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Screenplays | It's a weekday, you know (Now and Again; writing credit: Michael Angeli) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | During a small weekday service at the synagogue in Colchester, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Weekday Bustle." by Justin Baker Commentary: "Shot of an underground LRT station w/ motion blur. Shutter speed set to approx. 1 sec. Taken on Ilford HP5 B/W film (400 ISO) and developed in Kodak D76!." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Civil Liberties | Mozambique | The police justified their actions on the basis that the demonstrators were violating the law by protesting on a weekday, and that their request for a permit for the demonstration had been denied; however, the law was repealed in July to remove both the time restriction and the requirement for prior authorization. (references) |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | The full moon day of each month, if it falls on a weekday, is a paid holiday. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Weekday" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.92% of the time. "Weekday" is used about 186 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.92% | 184 | 22,714 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 186 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "weekday": annual average weekday traffic ♦ average weekday daily traffic. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
weekday | 6 |
homilies weekday | 5 |
joseph missal st weekday | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "weekday"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ditë jave. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | делничен (everyday, ferial, pedestrian, unromantic, workaday), делник (workday, working day). (various references) | |
Chinese | 平常日 , 周日. (various references) | |
Czech | všední den, pracovní den (workday, working day). (various references) | |
Danish | skæv helligdag (holiday not falling on a Sunday, weekday holiday), søgnehelligdag (holiday not falling on a Sunday, weekday holiday), årlig gennemsnitshverdagstrafik (annual average weekday traffic). (various references) | |
Dutch | vakantie op een werkdag (holiday not falling on a Sunday, weekday holiday), jaarlijks gemiddeld werkdagverkeer (annual average weekday traffic). (various references) | |
Farsi | روزهفته . (various references) | |
Finnish | viikonpäivä (day of the week). (various references) | |
French | jour de la semaine. (various references) | |
German | Wochentag. (various references) | |
Greek | καθημερινή μέρα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | יום חול (feria), אמצע שבוע. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hétköznap. (various references) | |
Italian | giorno lavorativo, giorno feriale, feriale, feria (day off, feria). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 平日 (ordinary days), ウーロン茶 (Oolong tea, Vienna Appeal, weak, weak point, week, weekend, weekly, wick, widget, wizard), ウィンザー家 (House of Windsor, liqueur candy, weak point, week, weekend, weekend carpenter, weekend father, weekend painter, weekly, whisker, whisky, whisky bonbon, whisky sour, window, window shopping, winter, wizard, yes). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ウイークデー , ウィークデー , ウィークデイ , へいじつ (ordinary days). (various references) | |
Korean | 평일 (Workday). (various references) | |
Manx | laa ny shiaghtin, laa jeh'n chiaghtin. (various references) | |
Maya | yaan-kiin. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eekdayway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dia da semana (day of the week), dia útil (business day, weekway, workday). (various references) | |
Romanian | zi de lucru (workday). (various references) | |
Russian | будний день (black-letter day, week-day, workday), день недели. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | radni dan (workday, working day). (various references) | |
Spanish | día laborable (business day, workday). (various references) | |
Swedish | vardag (workday). (various references) | |
Turkish | iş günü (daytime, workday, working day), hafta içi gün, çalışma günü (workday, working day). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | будень. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "weekday": weekdays. (additional references) | |
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"Weekday" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Wyddfa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "weekday" (pronounced wē"kdā') |
| 3 | -k d ā' | workday. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-k-w-y" | |
-2 letters: keyed, waked, weedy, yawed. | |
-3 letters: akee, awed, awee, dawk, deke, dewy, dyke, eked, eyed, wade, wady, wake, weak, weed, week, weka. | |
-4 letters: awe, aye, dak, daw, day, dee, dew, dey, dye, eke, ewe, eye, kae, kay, kea, key, wad, wae, way, wed, wee, wye, yak, yaw, yea, yew. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, aw, ay, de. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-k-w-y" | |
+1 letter: hawkeyed, weekdays. | |
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