midweekn.adj.adv.
/ˌmɪdˈwiːk/, U.S. /ˈmɪdˈwik/ A. n.
1. In the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): = Fourth-day n. at fourth adj. and n. Compounds 1.
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the world > time > period > a week > [noun] > mid-week
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1706 S. Sewall Diary 27 Apr. (1973) I. 545 He had a Tooth pull'd out..on Mid-week night.
1707 S. Sewall Diary 23 July (1973) I. 570 Midweek, visited Madam Leverett.
1855 T. B. Read New Pastoral vi, in Poet. Wks. (1883) 105 Now comes the mid-week; and, from various roads, Behold the frequent chaise..Taking its tranquil way to yonder grove.
1891 Catholic World Nov. 271 It was, in fact, the one resource for beguiling certain hours which until I was ten years old were regularly spent in midweek, as on Sundays, in the Friends' gatherings for worship.
1901 Atlantic Monthly July 61/2 On Sundays and in midweek she was warned by these teachers..that she should ever be examining head and heart to escape everlasting fire.
2. The middle of the week.
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1898 Daily News 10 Jan. 8/7 By mid-week there was a good attendance on 'Change again.
1917 R. Fry Let. 11 June (1972) II. 412 I'll always arrange for you at Guildford in the mid-week if you can come.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August viii. 162 Even in midweek there were many men about the streets.
1985 D. Dunn Elegies 54 A white sabbath of the mid-week. Each grey window has its person.
1997 Sunday Times 26 Oct. (Sport section) 6/4 Ray Harford's side lost to a late goal to top-of-the-table Nottingham Forest in mid-week.
B. adj.
Occurring in or relating to the middle of the week.
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1853 (title) St. Helens newspaper and midweek reporter.
1883 J. Parker Apostolic Life II. 35 Herein is a justification for mid-week meetings.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 290/1 Two or more severe races on the Saturday, with perhaps a mid-week meeting in between.
1956 Railway Mag. May 342/1 From May 1 to October 25, cheap midweek period tickets..will be issued.
1965 L. Deighton Only when I Larf xiv. 194 I took the mid-week aeroplane.
1984 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. 14/6 The cheapest midweek return will be £99 on the Portsmouth–Channel Islands run.
1996 D. Brimson & E. Brimson Everywhere we Go ii. 19 My first away game..happened to be a midweek match at Brentford.
C. adv.
During the middle part of the week.
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1975 Business Week (Nexis) 21 Apr. 126 Are you willing to fly midweek or at night or during off-peak months when the loads are lighter?
1986 J. Joseph Persephone xlvi. 202 He'd always longed to take a smart woman to stay a day or two. They would go midweek.
1991 Scottish Rugby Jan. 49/3 If a Scottish Cup ever comes off this will provide us with a choice to play midweek.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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