Saturday-to-Mondayadj.n.
/ˈsatədeɪ tə ˈmʌndeɪ/, /ˈsatədɪ tə ˈmʌndi/, U.S. /ˈsædərˌdeɪ tə ˈmənˌdeɪ/, /ˈsædərdi tə ˈməndi/ A. adj. (attributive).
Lasting, valid, or used for the period from Saturday till Monday.In quot. 1811 perhaps: designating a person whose weekly leisure time lasts from Saturday to Monday.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > specific days > [adjective]
Saturday-to-Monday1811
1811 F. Douce Let. 29 July in T. F. Dibdin Reminisc. Literary Life (1836) vi. 311 My neighbours..are..Saturday-to-Monday-men—gig fellows, that consume half their time of recreation on the road, and the rest in soaking through the Sunday.
1857 Times 3 Aug. 4/2 Hastings in two hours... Cheap Saturday to Monday tickets.
1866 H. J. Wilmot-Buxton Myst. Isis xxxiv. 313 No visitor, even if he be but a Saturday to Monday excursionist, has failed to take a walk in the cool silent cloisters, and listen to the musical bells of St. Anselm's.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xviii. 182 In one of the delightful Saturday to Monday trips on the Thames.
1906 ‘H. Foulis’ Vital Spark xi. 77 On the Wednesday a boy about twelve years of age, with an Eton suit and a Saturday-to-Monday hand-bag, came down to the wharf in a cab alone.
1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England vi. 63 If there is one social custom which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxon..it is the Saturday-to-Monday hospitality in the country.
2002 South Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 5 Jan. 5 The Saturday to Monday trip, which took in visits to museums and a European exhibition.
B. n.
A period of holiday or leisure beginning on a Saturday and ending on a Monday; the weekend considered as this period of time. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > weekend
weekend1793
Saturday-to-Monday1874
weekend1889
1874 C. Scott Round about Islands 153 We tired Londoners are glad enough of a Saturday to Monday in the Isle of Thanet, or a long Monday in Brighton.
1892 Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve III. 150 A..warm invitation..to spend an October Saturday-to-Monday at Benet's Park had been accepted.
1933 C. Porter Compl. Lyrics (1983) 113 Where are those undies that made my Saturday-to-Mondays?
2007 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 10 June g5 Nicolson gives a picture of bedroom-creeping aristos in the country on what was called a ‘Saturday-to-Monday’. ‘No one referred to “weekends”. The term was considered “common”.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1811