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Definition: Weekend |
WeekendNoun1. Usually Friday night through Sunday. Verb1. Spend the weekend. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "weekend" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The weekend -- one or two days, typically Saturday and Sunday -- is a time during which most paid workers do not work. This is a time for leisure and recreation, or for religious activities. There is substantially less activity on many websites on weekends.
The notion of a weekly rest is ancient; Judeo-Christian religions celebrate a day of rest known as the Sabbath. The Jewish Sabbath is known as Shabbat, and is from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday; the Christian Sabbath is known as the Lord's Day, and is on Sunday; the Muslim Sabbath is on Friday.
"The Tyranny of Time: The clock as god"
This quote suggests that the modern weekend is a result of the Industrial Revolution and perhaps the need to give factory workers a rest. It also suggests that the English gave not only the word "weekend" to the rest of the world but also the concept. Both suggestions are obviously false, as religions had been observing the Sabbath in very much this sense for millennia.
- "People do dream of enjoying their work by doing it at a rhythm which suits them and varying their rhythm for different occupations. This notion of personal rhythm was what the Industrial Revolution attacked and tried to destroy. How that happened can be seen in the forgotten history of the weekend. The English word has been adopted by almost every language, but it represents a poisoned gift from the English to humanity."
Another article, When, How, and Why Was the Sabbath Changed from Saturday to Sunday?, may be of interest in this connection.
See also Dirty weekend.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Weekend."
Crosswords: Weekend |
| English words defined with "weekend": arrive at, attain ♦ furlough ♦ gain ♦ hit ♦ make ♦ reach ♦ shoot ♦ weekender. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "weekend": atypical employment, atypical work ♦ Daily File ♦ stomp on ♦ virtual Friday. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Weekend" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (week-end), Dutch (week-end), French (weekend), Italian (weekend), Pidgin English (weekend). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend. (Jurassic Park; writing credit: Michael Crichton) Shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George. Based on the novel 'Red Alert, aka Two Hours to Doom' by Peter George.) I shall never forget the weekend Laura died (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler) Bullwinkle, it says here that for you to inherit the fortune, you have to spend the weekend in the ancestral home; Abominable Manor (The Bullwinkle Show; writing credit: Allan Burns; Chris Hayward) It's this weekend. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | And we all enjoyed the weekend for a change (You May Be Right; performing artist: Billy Joel) Well I'd been waiting for this weekend (Misunderstanding; performing artist: Genesis) I hope you can find the time this weekend to relax and unwind (Escapade; performing artist: Janet Jackson) I never wanted 2 be your weekend lover ("Purple Rain"; performing artist: Prince) Said I'm just in town for the weekend (Feelin' On Yo Booty; performing artist: R. Kelly) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Weekend (1974) Guess Who's Coming This Weekend (1973) School Teacher's Weekend Vacation (1973) Weekend Tail (1972) The Weekend Nun (1972) | |
Song Titles | Lost Weekend Las Vegas (performing artist: Wally Pleasant) Wild Weekend (Instrumental) (performing artist: The Rebels) Weekend (performing artist: Wet Willie) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Busy summer weekend at Senator Wash Recreation Area. Credit: Lori Cook. |  | Recreationists having fun at the lake on a warm summer holiday weekend. Credit: Lori Cook. |
 | Skiers arriving early in the morning with the weekend "ski-meister." North Conway, New Hampshire, center of the Eastern Slopes ski territory. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | West Danville, Vermont. Girls from Saint Johnsbury where they are spending a weekend on Joe's Pond, looking over fishing tackle in G. S. Hastings's general store. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | 2nd Congress to Unite Women : weekend of May 1st thru 3rd at 333 W. 17 St. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Bridge Clouds" by Julian Sutter Commentary: "This is a train bridge in Argentina... called puente Negro.. in the college im doing an exchange program at... we walk there every weekend... not much to do." | "Mark5" by Jamie Harris Commentary: "The last weekend of summer." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Another large proportion of U.K. travel consists of weekend and short-stay travel. (references) | |
For East Coast destinations, weekend shopping trips can be marketed to the U.K. consumer. (references) | ||
At the same time, the five-day workweek was instituted, which had the important effect of leaving more time for weekend activities. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Niger | The Government publishes a French-language daily newspaper, Le Sahel, and its weekend edition. (references) |
China | Some believe that the actions against Southern Weekend were taken in response to complaints from provincial Party propaganda chiefs in other parts of the country angered by corruption exposes in their provinces. (references) | |
China | In May Central Committee Propaganda Department officials severely criticized the editorial staff of Guangzhou's widely read newspaper, Southern Weekend, and forced its management to fire two senior editors for publishing exposes of corruption. (references) | |
Economic History | Czech Rep | These small shops now face stiff competition from American-style supermarkets, European "hypermarkets," and shopping malls with broader selection, lower prices, extended weekend and evening hours (increasingly, 24-hour operation), and excellent customer service. (references) |
Human Rights | Argentina | Police occasionally detain teenagers and young adults, sometimes overnight or for an entire weekend, without formal charges. (references) |
Dominica | This requirement generally is honored in practice, although those arrested on Fridays often must remain in jail over the weekend and are not charged until the following Monday. (references) | |
Minorities | Israel and the occupied territories | For example, a September 1999 survey revealed that 40 percent of employment ads in one weekend newspaper listed "army service necessary." Jobs included ice cream sales, typist, bus driver, and customer service. (references) |
Political Economy | FINLAND | Employees working in shifts or during the weekend are entitled to a 24-hour rest period during the week. (references) |
OMAN | Employers require the Ministry's approval to engage children between 13 and 16 years of age in overtime, night, weekend or holiday, or strenuous work. (references) | |
Political Rights | Hungary | The Hungarian Women's Alliance holds weekend courses throughout the year to promote the participation of women in public life. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | Open 7 days, with live music on the weekend. (references) |
South Africa | All weekend calls are at discount (callmore) rates. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Germany | Provisions for overtime, holiday, and weekend pay vary depending upon the applicable collective bargaining agreement. (references) |
Romania | The Labor Code provides for a standard workweek of 40 hours or 5 days, with overtime to be paid for weekend or holiday work or work in excess of 40 hours. (references) | |
India | In Punjab persons of both sexes are sold in an organized trade in weekend bazaars, ostensibly as farm labor; many instead are purchased for the purposes of forced sexual service. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Sure, you're family at the Olive Garden, until you ask them for a loan or try to get them to watch your kids while you go away for a long weekend. |
Nancy Grace | Well, as you know, I'm clearly not a New Yorker. But long story short, I don't care what the man's driving. I care about the girl's blood on the clothes that he was taking to the cleaner the weekend of her disappearance. |
Robert Novak | President Bush this weekend reaffirmed that he considers Saddam Hussein in Iraq an enemy of the American people. |
Rush Limbaugh | Democrats said over the weekend that economic security and domestic security go hand in hand, and it was important that lawmakers set priorities with both goals in mind. |
Trisha Meili | I'll tell you, that was something else. That was about five months after. I was still at Gaylord, but I went back to New York City on a weekend. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | This weekend I will meet at Camp David with Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Federation. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Weekend" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.45% of the time. "Weekend" is used about 6,308 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) | 99.45% | 6,273 | 1,550 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.55% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,308 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "weekend": last weekend ♦ weekend cottage ♦ weekend tripper ♦ weekend user ♦ weekend warrior. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "weekend": Weekend-in-paris, weekend-workshops. | |
Ending with "weekend": dirty-weekend, long-weekend, over-the-weekend, six-festivals-a-weekend, two-weekend. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
weekend getaway | 1,580 | only weekend | 86 |
weekend | 1,350 | stag weekend | 84 |
birthday weekend | 973 | walleye weekend | 83 |
homecoming weekend | 527 | weekend warrior trailer | 82 |
weekend box office | 378 | weekend cruise | 80 |
today weekend | 314 | spa weekend | 80 |
romantic weekend | 307 | soap super weekend | 76 |
romantic weekend getaway | 275 | furniture only weekend | 75 |
weekend vacation | 245 | cheap weekend getaway | 73 |
weekend break | 220 | usa weekend | 71 |
japanese weekend | 199 | player weekend | 71 |
weekend wood craft | 192 | weekend excursion | 69 |
weekend warrior | 157 | nbc today weekend | 69 |
ford fun weekend | 120 | cheap weekend break | 69 |
weekend trip | 113 | weekend job | 67 |
show today weekend | 106 | scooter weekend | 66 |
weekend break uk | 99 | weekend face lift | 61 |
classic rock weekend | 91 | hen weekend | 58 |
murder mystery weekend | 90 | labor day weekend | 50 |
weekend at bernies | 89 | japanese weekend maternity | 49 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "weekend"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | uikend, fundjavë. (various references) | |
Arabic | نهاية الأسبوع, عطلة الأسبوع. (various references) | |
Chinese | 周末 . (various references) | |
Czech | víkend, konec týdne. (various references) | |
Danish | hyggefixer (chipper, Mickey Mouse, sunday habit, weekend user, weekend warrior). (various references) | |
Farsi | تعطیل اخرهفته راگذراندن , تعطیل اخرهفته , اخرهفته . (various references) | |
French | week-end (week-end), weekend, fin de la semaine. (various references) | |
German | Wochenende (week-end). (various references) | |
Greek | σαββατοκύριακο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שישבת, סופשבוע, סוף שבוע. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hétvégi, hétvége (week-end). (various references) | |
Italian | fine settimana. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 週末 , 週末 , 土日 (Saturday and Sunday), ウーロン茶 (Oolong tea, Vienna Appeal, weak, weak point, week, weekday, weekly, wick, widget, wizard), ウィンザー家 (House of Windsor, liqueur candy, weak point, week, weekday, weekend carpenter, weekend father, weekend painter, weekly, whisker, whisky, whisky bonbon, whisky sour, window, window shopping, winter, wizard, yes). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅうまつ (a close, an end), どにち (Saturday and Sunday), ウイークエンド , ウィークエンド . (various references) | |
Korean | 주말 (Week-end). (various references) | |
Luganda | wiikendi. (various references) | |
Manx | jerrey shiaghtin. (various references) | |
Pidgin English | weekend. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eekendway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fim-de-semana. (various references) | |
Russian | уикенд. (various references) | |
Scottish | deireadh-seachdain. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vikend, kraj nedelje. (various references) | |
Spanish | fin de semana. (various references) | |
Swedish | helgen. (various references) | |
Turkish | hafta sonunu geçirmek, hafta sonu yapılan, hafta sonu. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уїк-енд, кінець тижня. (various references) | |
Welsh | penwythnos. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "weekend": weekended, weekender, weekenders, weekending, weekends. (additional references) | |
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"Weekend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: weakend, Wedekind, weeked, weeken, weken, wekend, werken, wieked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "weekend" (pronounced wē"ke'nd or wē"ki'nd) |
| 4 | -k e' n d | bookend. |
| 3 | -e' n d | boyfriend, dividend, downtrend, girlfriend, godsend, hornblende, outspend, overspend, pitchblende, uptrend. |
| 3 | -i' n d | headwind, sequined, underpinned, undisciplined, whirlwind, woodwind. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-k-n-w" | |
-1 letter: keened, weened. | |
-2 letters: kneed. | |
-3 letters: deke, dene, eked, keen, knee, knew, need, weed, week, ween, wend. | |
-4 letters: dee, den, dew, eke, end, ewe, ken, nee, new, wed, wee, wen. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, en, ne, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-k-n-w" | |
+1 letter: weakened, weekends. | |
+2 letters: rewakened, snakeweed, weekended, weekender. | |
+3 letters: needlework, reawakened, snakeweeds, weekenders, weekending. | |
+4 letters: needleworks. | |
+5 letters: needleworker, wickednesses. | |
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