weekdayn.

Brit.

/ˈwiːkdeɪ/, U.S.

/ˈwikˌdeɪ/

Forms: see week n. and day n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: week n., day n.

Etymology: < week n. + day n. Compare Old High German wehhatag (compare Middle High German wochentac, German Wochentag), Old Icelandic vikudagr, Old Swedish viku dagher (Swedish veckodag), Danish ugedag (already in early modern Danish).

I. A single day.

1. Usually in forms week day, week-day. A day of the week; a day.In Old English in phrases with a preceding ordinal denoting a particular day of the week; cf. feria n.Much less common than sense 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > week day

weekdayeOE

workdayOE

ilka daya1658

working day1796

workday1841

eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. iii. 162 Heo þy feorðan wicdæge & þy syxtan [L. quarta et sexta sabbati] fæston to nones.

OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) xxii. 37 Sequenti die, secunda uidelicet feria, hoc idem impleant : þam æftran dæge on oþrum witodlice wucedæge þæt ylce gefyllan.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13182 Alls itt off þiss werrldess daȝȝ Rihht onnfasst efenn wære. Forr þi þatt ure wuke daȝȝ Bi twellfe timess erneþþ [etc.].

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark xvi. 2 Ful eerly in oon of woke [a1400 BL Add. 15580 the weke] dayes, thei camen to the sepulcre.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 155 [They] do mare the sonday or the haly day na othir wolk dayes.

1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. v. xxii. f. 183^v The weeke dayes do not runne equally with the course off the moone.

1651 N. Culpeper Ephemeris for 1652 sig. C^v (table) 1652. February hath xxix. days. [Columns headed:] Moneth days. Week days. Moons Latitude.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 131/2 The Romans call..their Week Days, Dies Lunae, Dies Martis, Dies Mercurij, Dies Iovis, Dies Veneris, Dies Saturni, Dies Solis.

1764 ‘Philo-Pegasus’ Eclipse Races 22 (heading) A perpetual and useful table for finding, at sight, the week-day, to any month-day, and the contrary, for ever.

1877 S. Butcher Eccl. Cal. xxx. 36 In any two consecutive centurial years, the 1st of January in the one year will be 6 week-days apart from January 1 in the other.

1908 Proc. & Trans. Royal Soc. Canada 3rd ser. 2 226 [Method] D is designed to secure 13 equal months of 4 weeks each, with fixed Quarter Years, and week-days recurring on the same dates every month.

2010 P. McFedries Simply Excel 2010 5 Fill a series... Most programs also fill in dates and the names of week days and months.

2. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English. A day of the week other than market day or Sunday. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > week day > as opposed to market-day, festival-day, or Sunday

feriec1380

weekday1477

weekday1534

low day1566

warday1598

feria1763

everyday1798

ferial1877

1477 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 141 The nolt merket..[to be held] about the Trone,..and nocht on the wolk day.

1524–5 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 74 Thair be na taxstaris of salt one the mercat day bot the salter or one the weik day without leiff.

1588 in G. P. Scrope Hist. Castle Combe (1852) 332 That none shall bye any grayne or other vittell on our markett-daye before nyne of the clocke in the fore-none, nor in the wicke-dayes more then shall serve their owne howsolde.

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. ii. xvii. §30. 125 If the Brieve..does not intervene a Market day, the Brieves may be proclaimed upon any week day.

1825 Rep. Select Comm. State of Ireland 746 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 129) VIII. 1 They [sc. tolls and customs] are levied on every day in the week, as well as on those days which are by law allowed; market day or week day makes no difference.

1890 Catholic World July 493 The main support of publicans in a country town is the fair-day or the market-day. If you enter the town of a week-day you will find their shops abandoned and empty.

1995 E. Gemmill & N. Mayhew Changing Values in Medieval Scotl. (2006) ii. 62 There were sundry neighbours in the burgh who..sold grain with peck and firlot in smalls both on market day and weekday to poor folk for more than it was sold at in the market.

3. A day of the week other than Saturday or Sunday (before the 20th cent., other than Sunday only), typically regarded as a day for work. Cf. workday n. 1.The usual sense since the 16th century.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > week day > as opposed to market-day, festival-day, or Sunday

feriec1380

weekday1477

weekday1534

low day1566

warday1598

feria1763

everyday1798

ferial1877

1534 W. Marshall tr. Erasmus Playne & Godly Expos. Commune Crede f. 161^v If in the other wekedayes any spotte or fylthe of synne be gathered..he sholde eyther on the saterdaye in the euentyde or els on sondaye in the mornynge reconcile hymselfe and make an onement with god.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes i. 139 For although they wyll not trauayle nor labour on the Sunday, as they do on the weeke day, yet they wyll not rest in holynes.

1593 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1833) I. 57 That..wpone the oulk dayes thai begin at viij houris and end preciselie at ix houris.

1633 G. Herbert Sunday in Temple 68 Thou [sc. Sunday] art a day of mirth! And where the week-dayes trail on ground, Thy flight is higher.

1654 J. Audland in Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. (1919) 16 135 I have been in Bristoll severall first dayes..and I have gone into the Countrey, in the Weekdayes.

1732 A. Pope True Narr. what passed in London in J. Swift et al. Misc.: 3rd Vol. 263 My Wife and I went to Church (where we had not been for many Years on a Week-day).

1794 ‘P. Pindar’ Pindariana (1795) 178 On week-days were black worsted mittens worn; Black silk, on Sundays, did her arms adorn.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 150 Pass through St. Giles's in the evening of a week day:—there they are in their fustian dresses.

1860 Sat. Rev. 3 Mar. 277/2 His father was a hard-working man on week-days, and a preacher on Sundays.

1940 Post Office Guide Aug. 413 Night telegraph letters, which are accepted at any time and delivered by first postal delivery the next weekday or by special messenger shortly afterwards.

1976 P. R. White Planning for Public Transport ii. 32 On weekdays (Mondays to Fridays), to which many urban surveys are confined, many trips are made within a confined time budget.

2002 C. Hardwicke & N. Reed Thirteen (film script) 9 Tracy Dad never answers his Instant Messages—Mason Tracy, don't bug him on weekdays.

†II. A period of multiple days.

4. A week; a working week. Obsolete.

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the world > time > period > a week > [noun] > as a unit for reckoning work, etc.

week1389

weekdaya1400

five-day week1926

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2857 Sir loth wijf..In a salt stan men seis hir stand þat bestes likes o þat land, þat anes o þe wok day, þan es sco liked al a-way.

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 202 Þer was a shomaker þat wold wurk all þe weke day, & on þe Satturday he wold evur go vnto þe kurk.

a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1976) 9 Men schuldyn so gouernyn hem in þe wockeday aforn þat hem schulde nout nedyn to brekyn þe halyday.

a1602 W. Perkins Whole Treat. Cases of Conscience (1606) ii. xvi. 461 Seruants must haue recreation, otherwise how shall they be able to worke in the weeke day?

Compounds

General attributive, as weekday clothes, weekday market, weekday morning, weekday service, etc.

ΚΠ

1416 Lease in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 404 [A built messuage in the] Wykeday Market, [near the King's highway leading from the Flesschewergate to the Middle Pavement].

1446 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 184 Unam shopam jacentem in le Flesshshamle in Wykday Market inter shopam Margaretae Estwayt ex parte australi.

1541 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 382 Item to John Worthyngton for mendyng of the stockes at the Wekedey Crosse..ijd.

1583 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 202 Harry Welche for a shop in ye Wekeday Shambelles, due at Candylmas..ixs.

1604 S. Hieron Preachers Plea 215 (margin) Of weeke-day Lectures.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. x. 421 Their Dominicals and week-day Letters.

1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 17 One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's.

1762 T. Secker 2nd Charge Abp. of Canterbury to Clergy of Diocese (1771) 253 Diligence..in bringing your People to the holy Communion, and where it can be, to Week-Day Prayers.

1802 W. Wordsworth in Morning Post 16 Sept. The talk Man holds with week-day man in the hourly walk Of the mind's business.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. vi. lii. 284 He knew nothing of week-day services, and thought none the worse of the Sunday sermon, if it allowed him to sleep from the text to the blessing.

1877 A. Maclaren (title) Week-day Evening Addresses.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. vii. 89 She..came down in her ordinary weekday clothes, her Sunday apparel being carefully folded in her box.

1918 in Monthly Labor Rev. (1920) Mar. 708 Week-day time in excess of 10 hours daily shall be compensated at the rate of time and one-half and Sundays double time.

1962 Pop. Mech. May 177/1 (advt.) Chevrolets! Weekday breadwinners, week-end trail blazers!

2012 B. Sehlinger Unoffic. Guide to Disneyland Paris i. 21 Saturday mornings are always much busier than weekday mornings.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	weekday
释义	weekdayn. Brit. /ˈwiːkdeɪ/, U.S. /ˈwikˌdeɪ/ Forms: see week n. and day n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: week n., day n. Etymology: < week n. + day n. Compare Old High German wehhatag (compare Middle High German wochentac, German Wochentag), Old Icelandic vikudagr, Old Swedish viku dagher (Swedish veckodag), Danish ugedag (already in early modern Danish). I. A single day. 1. Usually in forms week day, week-day. A day of the week; a day.In Old English in phrases with a preceding ordinal denoting a particular day of the week; cf. feria n.Much less common than sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > week day weekdayeOE workdayOE ilka daya1658 working day1796 workday1841 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. iii. 162 Heo þy feorðan wicdæge & þy syxtan [L. quarta et sexta sabbati] fæston to nones. OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) xxii. 37 Sequenti die, secunda uidelicet feria, hoc idem impleant : þam æftran dæge on oþrum witodlice wucedæge þæt ylce gefyllan. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13182 Alls itt off þiss werrldess daȝȝ Rihht onnfasst efenn wære. Forr þi þatt ure wuke daȝȝ Bi twellfe timess erneþþ [etc.]. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark xvi. 2 Ful eerly in oon of woke [a1400 BL Add. 15580 the weke] dayes, thei camen to the sepulcre. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 155 [They] do mare the sonday or the haly day na othir wolk dayes. 1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. v. xxii. f. 183^v The weeke dayes do not runne equally with the course off the moone. 1651 N. Culpeper Ephemeris for 1652 sig. C^v (table) 1652. February hath xxix. days. [Columns headed:] Moneth days. Week days. Moons Latitude. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 131/2 The Romans call..their Week Days, Dies Lunae, Dies Martis, Dies Mercurij, Dies Iovis, Dies Veneris, Dies Saturni, Dies Solis. 1764 ‘Philo-Pegasus’ Eclipse Races 22 (heading) A perpetual and useful table for finding, at sight, the week-day, to any month-day, and the contrary, for ever. 1877 S. Butcher Eccl. Cal. xxx. 36 In any two consecutive centurial years, the 1st of January in the one year will be 6 week-days apart from January 1 in the other. 1908 Proc. & Trans. Royal Soc. Canada 3rd ser. 2 226 [Method] D is designed to secure 13 equal months of 4 weeks each, with fixed Quarter Years, and week-days recurring on the same dates every month. 2010 P. McFedries Simply Excel 2010 5 Fill a series... Most programs also fill in dates and the names of week days and months. 2. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English. A day of the week other than market day or Sunday. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > week day > as opposed to market-day, festival-day, or Sunday feriec1380 weekday1477 weekday1534 low day1566 warday1598 feria1763 everyday1798 ferial1877 1477 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 141 The nolt merket..[to be held] about the Trone,..and nocht on the wolk day. 1524–5 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 74 Thair be na taxstaris of salt one the mercat day bot the salter or one the weik day without leiff. 1588 in G. P. Scrope Hist. Castle Combe (1852) 332 That none shall bye any grayne or other vittell on our markett-daye before nyne of the clocke in the fore-none, nor in the wicke-dayes more then shall serve their owne howsolde. 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. ii. xvii. §30. 125 If the Brieve..does not intervene a Market day, the Brieves may be proclaimed upon any week day. 1825 Rep. Select Comm. State of Ireland 746 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 129) VIII. 1 They [sc. tolls and customs] are levied on every day in the week, as well as on those days which are by law allowed; market day or week day makes no difference. 1890 Catholic World July 493 The main support of publicans in a country town is the fair-day or the market-day. If you enter the town of a week-day you will find their shops abandoned and empty. 1995 E. Gemmill & N. Mayhew Changing Values in Medieval Scotl. (2006) ii. 62 There were sundry neighbours in the burgh who..sold grain with peck and firlot in smalls both on market day and weekday to poor folk for more than it was sold at in the market. 3. A day of the week other than Saturday or Sunday (before the 20th cent., other than Sunday only), typically regarded as a day for work. Cf. workday n. 1.The usual sense since the 16th century. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > week day > as opposed to market-day, festival-day, or Sunday feriec1380 weekday1477 weekday1534 low day1566 warday1598 feria1763 everyday1798 ferial1877 1534 W. Marshall tr. Erasmus Playne & Godly Expos. Commune Crede f. 161^v If in the other wekedayes any spotte or fylthe of synne be gathered..he sholde eyther on the saterdaye in the euentyde or els on sondaye in the mornynge reconcile hymselfe and make an onement with god. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes i. 139 For although they wyll not trauayle nor labour on the Sunday, as they do on the weeke day, yet they wyll not rest in holynes. 1593 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1833) I. 57 That..wpone the oulk dayes thai begin at viij houris and end preciselie at ix houris. 1633 G. Herbert Sunday in Temple 68 Thou [sc. Sunday] art a day of mirth! And where the week-dayes trail on ground, Thy flight is higher. 1654 J. Audland in Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. (1919) 16 135 I have been in Bristoll severall first dayes..and I have gone into the Countrey, in the Weekdayes. 1732 A. Pope True Narr. what passed in London in J. Swift et al. Misc.: 3rd Vol. 263 My Wife and I went to Church (where we had not been for many Years on a Week-day). 1794 ‘P. Pindar’ Pindariana (1795) 178 On week-days were black worsted mittens worn; Black silk, on Sundays, did her arms adorn. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 150 Pass through St. Giles's in the evening of a week day:—there they are in their fustian dresses. 1860 Sat. Rev. 3 Mar. 277/2 His father was a hard-working man on week-days, and a preacher on Sundays. 1940 Post Office Guide Aug. 413 Night telegraph letters, which are accepted at any time and delivered by first postal delivery the next weekday or by special messenger shortly afterwards. 1976 P. R. White Planning for Public Transport ii. 32 On weekdays (Mondays to Fridays), to which many urban surveys are confined, many trips are made within a confined time budget. 2002 C. Hardwicke & N. Reed Thirteen (film script) 9 Tracy Dad never answers his Instant Messages—Mason Tracy, don't bug him on weekdays. †II. A period of multiple days. 4. A week; a working week. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a week > [noun] > as a unit for reckoning work, etc. week1389 weekdaya1400 five-day week1926 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2857 Sir loth wijf..In a salt stan men seis hir stand þat bestes likes o þat land, þat anes o þe wok day, þan es sco liked al a-way. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 202 Þer was a shomaker þat wold wurk all þe weke day, & on þe Satturday he wold evur go vnto þe kurk. a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1976) 9 Men schuldyn so gouernyn hem in þe wockeday aforn þat hem schulde nout nedyn to brekyn þe halyday. a1602 W. Perkins Whole Treat. Cases of Conscience (1606) ii. xvi. 461 Seruants must haue recreation, otherwise how shall they be able to worke in the weeke day? Compounds General attributive, as weekday clothes, weekday market, weekday morning, weekday service, etc. ΚΠ 1416 Lease in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 404 [A built messuage in the] Wykeday Market, [near the King's highway leading from the Flesschewergate to the Middle Pavement]. 1446 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 184 Unam shopam jacentem in le Flesshshamle in Wykday Market inter shopam Margaretae Estwayt ex parte australi. 1541 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 382 Item to John Worthyngton for mendyng of the stockes at the Wekedey Crosse..ijd. 1583 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 202 Harry Welche for a shop in ye Wekeday Shambelles, due at Candylmas..ixs. 1604 S. Hieron Preachers Plea 215 (margin) Of weeke-day Lectures. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. x. 421 Their Dominicals and week-day Letters. 1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 17 One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's. 1762 T. Secker 2nd Charge Abp. of Canterbury to Clergy of Diocese (1771) 253 Diligence..in bringing your People to the holy Communion, and where it can be, to Week-Day Prayers. 1802 W. Wordsworth in Morning Post 16 Sept. The talk Man holds with week-day man in the hourly walk Of the mind's business. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. vi. lii. 284 He knew nothing of week-day services, and thought none the worse of the Sunday sermon, if it allowed him to sleep from the text to the blessing. 1877 A. Maclaren (title) Week-day Evening Addresses. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. vii. 89 She..came down in her ordinary weekday clothes, her Sunday apparel being carefully folded in her box. 1918 in Monthly Labor Rev. (1920) Mar. 708 Week-day time in excess of 10 hours daily shall be compensated at the rate of time and one-half and Sundays double time. 1962 Pop. Mech. May 177/1 (advt.) Chevrolets! Weekday breadwinners, week-end trail blazers! 2012 B. Sehlinger Unoffic. Guide to Disneyland Paris i. 21 Saturday mornings are always much busier than weekday mornings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.eOE
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