weekendn.

Brit.

/ˌwiːkˈɛnd/,

/ˈwiːkɛnd/, U.S.

/ˈwikˌɛnd/

Forms: see week n. and end n.

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

Etymology: < week n. + end n. Compare earlier weekday n. 2 and 3, and week n. 4.

†1. The conclusion of a week's time. Obsolete.

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a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 315 (MED) At þe woke ende spake þe ermyte.

2. The end of the week. Cf. year-end n. rare before 20th cent.Usually as two words, or hyphenated.

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1638 in Victoria County Hist. Yorkshire (1912) II. 415/2 The greatest weight of the said exaction will fall upon very poor people..who making every week a coarse kersey and being compelled to sell the same at the week end..are nevertheless constrained to yield one half penny apiece.

1910 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 19 Feb. 445/1 The base price of 60 per cent. zinc ore..dropped to $40 at midweek; at week end there was practically no base price and very few sales.

1934 Economist 26 May 1151/1 In Berlin, the Debt Conference is faced with the prospect of a break-up, before week-end, without agreement.

2008 U. B. Singh Time Managem. iii. 120 Getting the predetermined job quota for the week completed by week end.

a. The period between two working weeks, typically regarded as a time for leisure or recreation. Also with distinguishing word indicating an activity pursued during this period.The usual sense.Since the advent of the five-day working week, the weekend has usually been characterized as extending from Saturday morning or Friday evening until Sunday night. During the late 19th century, a British worker's leisure period often began on Saturday at noon.activity, dirty, long, lost weekend, etc.: see the first element.

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

weekend1793

Saturday-to-Monday1874

weekend1889

society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > weekend

weekend1879

long weekend1899

1793 W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 27 Feb. (1965) i. 70 Wrote to Dewe that I would put on my seven league boots next weekend and stretch my course to Appleby.

1844 Age & Argus 13 Apr. 2/3 I am not one of those who think that Almighty God ever designed that human beings should be employed from morn to night—from week end to week end.

1870 Food Jrnl. Mar. 97 ‘Week-end’, that is from Saturday until Monday,—it may be a later day in the week if the money and credit hold out,—is the season of dissipation.

1879 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 12 428/2 In Staffordshire, if a person leaves home at the end of his week's work on the Saturday afternoon to spend the evening of Saturday and the following Sunday with friends at a distance, he is said to be spending his week-end at So-and-so.

1905 Spectator 26 Aug. 289/1 What a ‘week-end’ it must have been for the host, whatever it may have been for the guest.

1920 T. S. Eliot Let. Sept. (1988) I. 406 I should have written to Violet to say how much I enjoyed the weekend. We must not let our theatricals drop!

1937 Times 26 Nov. 21/5 The letter began with old Lady Chervil's unvarying formula:—My dear Mrs. Miniver, Chervil and I shall be delighted if you and your Husband will stay with us from Friday 19th to Monday 22nd November. (She would have gone to the guillotine sooner than use the expression ‘week-end’.

1958 P. Marris Widows & their Families ii. 12 One of the things I miss most is our camping weekends. I used to be as happy as a sandboy.

1996 H. Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary (1997) 67 Message Jones... Have a good weekend. Pip pip.

2005 J. McKinney California's National Parks 306 Sometimes 5000 Southlanders a weekend would come to swim, fish, picnic and enjoy the amusement rides.

b. spec. This period spent away from home; a weekend spent at work or in recreation.

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

weekend1793

Saturday-to-Monday1874

weekend1889

1889 M. E. Braddon Day will Come III. iii. 38 Theodore and his friend betook themselves to Cheriton Chase on the following Friday, for that kind of visit which north country people describe as ‘a week end’.

1930 Air July 292 The Prime Minister and Miss Ishbel MacDonald emplaning for a week-end in Edinburgh.

1988 W. Balliett Amer. Singers (2005) 110 In the early fifties, I did a weekend at a hotel on Virginia Beach.

c. British colloquial (euphemistic). something (also anything) for the weekend: a condom, or a supply of condoms. Also in extended use: a sexual aid, an aphrodisiac, etc.Popularly considered to originate in a euphemistic question put by barbers to their customers.

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1968 Link (New Delhi) 25 Feb. 31/1 Fathers were urged that when the barber asked them whether they wanted anything for the weekend, they should ‘demand British letters’.

1972 Wonderful World of Sounds in Monty Python's Previous Record (gramophone record) A herd of zebras visiting the same chemist to ask for something for the weekend.

1986 A. Coren Something for Weekend 7 And..to deal with his ritual valediction ‘Something for the weekend?’ ‘No.’ ‘You didn't mind me asking?’ ‘Of course not.’ ‘It's traditional.’

1987 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Jan. Barbers would ask our fathers: ‘Anything for the weekend, sir?’

1998 Independent (Electronic ed.) 10 July 5 As the body-builders..were paying for their tins of powdered protein, they used to give me a wink and ask if I had anything for their wives, something for the weekend.

1999 Times (Nexis) 11 Aug. The days when a Friday night visit to the barber's shop ended with the whispered enquiry: ‘Anything for the weekend, Sir?’ are long past.

4. The weekly period (esp. from Friday evening to Monday morning) during which business is suspended or reduced, and shops are closed.In recent years shops and other businesses have tended to open more at weekends, and this sense has begun to merge with sense 3a.

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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > weekend > during which shops, etc., are closed

weekend1852

non-day1856

1852 Morning Chron. 1 Jan. 3/6 Damping the fire down at night, and over the week end..and sometimes allowing it to be out on Sunday, would naturally slacken the ventilation.

1878 J. Almond Bunch of Watercresses 4 If I get my 'bacco now, I can manage to see th' week-end o'er very well.

1913 Times 13 Sept. 17/3 The Money Market was steady with a fair demand for advances over the week-end at about previous rates.

1950 N. Frye Diary 29 July (2001) 419 The stationer's shops on Harvard Square were all closed for the weekend.

2012 A. Rudnick Recovery of People with Mental Illness ii. 18 Any person who was admitted at the weekend would automatically be sedated without being seen by a doctor.

5. The last day of the week; Saturday. rare.

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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > specific days > [noun] > Saturday

SaturdayeOE

seventh dayOE

fore-sabbath1656

weekend1880

1880 C. H. Poole Attempt Gloss. Stafford Week-end, Saturday.

1921 Writer's Monthly Oct. 328 Persons who went to the country to pass Saturday and Sunday were not ‘week-end’ visitors. The week-end is Saturday, Mr. Bennett maintained.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. With the sense ‘for use at or only at the weekend; appropriate to the weekend’, as weekend bag, weekend case, weekend cottage, weekend ticket, etc.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag > hand-held

mailc1275

clothesack1393

cloak-bagc1540

portmanteau1553

valance?a1562

pockmanty1575

cap-case1577

cloak-bearer1580

night baga1618

valisea1630

toilet1656

Roger1665

shirt case1823

weekend case1827

carpet-bag1830

holdall1851

handbag1859

suitcase1873

sample case1875

gripsack1877

case1879

grip1879

Gladstone (bag)1882

traveller1895

vanity-case1913

luggage1915

revelation1923

two-suiter1923

overnight bag1925

one-suiter1933

suiter1933

overnight case1934

Samsonite1939

flight bag1943

Pullman1946

grip-bag1958

overnighter1959

carry-on1960

Vuitton1975

go bag1991

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > summer house or holiday house

summer houseOE

pleasure house1590

mahal1610

aestivation1625

summer cottage1638

cottage1805

Swiss cottage1820

summer home1821

casita1822

chalet1853

bathing-box1883

rest home1889

dacha1896

housekeeping cottage1901

weekend cottage1911

weekender1921

bach1940

hafod1952

gite1964

getaway1968

vacation home1969

timeshare1974

share1984

society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag

cloak-bagc1540

mallet1612

Peter1667

sac de nuit1814

carpet-bag1830

roll-up1831

pikau1836

travelling bag1838

swag1853

suit bag1869

bluey1878

Matilda1889

shiralee1892

port1898

handgrip1915

sea-bag1918

blanket pack1920

weekender1929

valpack1934

weekend bag1946

swag bag1951

1827 Lancaster Gaz. 28 Apr. The pauper's father was to find him..week-end victuals (by which she said was meant Saturday night's supper, Sunday's victuals, and Monday's breakfast).

1863 Newcastle Courant 6 Nov. 4/1 Week end tickets.—First, Second, and Third Class Return Tickets (at the same price as Market Tickets) are issued..on Saturday and Sunday Morning.

1911 ‘Saki’ in Bystander 12 Apr. 70/2 I've seen a week-end cottage near Dorking that I should rather like to buy.

1946 C. McCullers Member of Wedding i. 10 At dark John Henry came to the back door with a little week-end bag.

1952 ‘M. Cost’ Hour Awaits 136 She carried a small, smart week-end case of crocodile.

1971 Times 2 July 2/2 Lamb should be an excellent choice for the weekend joint.

1999 F. McCourt 'Tis xii. 95 That got him confined to barracks and no weekend pass for three weeks.

b. With the sense ‘occurring or taking place at the weekend; lasting all weekend’, as weekend break, weekend course, weekend getaway, weekend leave, etc.

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society > leisure > [noun] > leave of absence > for armed forces

furlough1631

leaf1846

weekend leave1924

society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > class or course > types of

summer session1594

evening class1762

summer school1793

training course1822

shop class1844

elective1850

optional1855

night class1870

correspondence class1876

Chautauqua1884

correspondence course1902

gut1902

holiday course1906

shop1912

pud1917

training seminar1917

film school1929

day school1931

refresher1939

farm shop1941

survey course1941

weekend course1944

crash programme1947

sandwich course1955

thick sandwich1962

module1966

bird course1975

society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [adjective]

weekend1958

1871 Bell's Life in London 17 June 8/1 The fares would be reduced, at least during the fishing season, for week-end excursions.

1896 F. M. T. Palsgrave List Words & Phrases Hetton-le-Hole (at cited word) ‘Week~end trips’ are now advertised on most of the [railway] lines.

1924 R. Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 316 You live like a home defence Brigadier, besides week-end leaf [sic].

1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 117 Short weekend courses and longer ‘study workshops’ for teachers.

1958 O. Caroe Pathans xxv. 418 Roos-Keppel did indeed start his tour of office with two small operations the scale of which is sufficiently shown by the fact that one of them was called the week~end war.

1985 New Scientist 29 Aug. 72/1 Deep freezers were said to be the beginning of the withering of weekend shopping because they made it unnecessary to buy in small amounts.

1996 Holiday Which? Jan. 6/2 Palma is an ideal destination for a weekend break.

2005 DreamScapes Mar. 2/1 Whether I'm heading off for a weekend getaway or three weeks, I never travel with more than one roll-aboard and a small knapsack.

c. With the sense ‘carrying out an activity at or only at the weekend; (hence) doing something purely for pleasure, or in an amateur or casual way (sometimes used depreciatively, implying superficiality)’, as weekend athlete, weekend gardener, weekend motorist, weekend sailor, weekend soldier, etc. Cf. Sunday n. and adv. Compounds 1e.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > gardener > [noun] > types of gardener

arborist1578

nursery gardener1629

nurseryman1629

raiser1707

kitchen gardener1709

market gardener1727

curator1761

landscape-gardenera1763

plannerc1770

mail-gardener1798

landscape architect1863

trucker1868

plantsman1881

weekend gardener1884

groundsman1886

rock gardener1886

tea-gardener1903

landscapist1936

wild gardener1966

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of motor vehicle > who drives only at weekends

Sunday driver1877

weekend motorist1884

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > athlete

gamer1564

athletic1682

athlete1822

gymnasiarch1825

weekend athlete1941

thin-clad1947

Olympian1977

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > auxiliary or reserve

volunteer1642

redif1836

home guard1850

reservist1854

reserve1897

Saturday night soldier1911

weekend soldier1970

society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > [noun] > casual or amateur sailor

boater1866

weekend sailor1976

1884 G. W. Turner Picturesque Wales 106 (advt.) Cheap Return Tickets For Week-end Visitors.

1917 Printers' Ink 6 Dec. 144/2 To make a window display every Saturday to catch the week-end shoppers.

1935 Discovery Oct. 314/1 The publisher suggests that English Earth will interest equally the farmer and the week-end motorist.

1941 Time 30 June 31/1 Week-end athletes should be careful.

1970 New Yorker 3 Oct. 40/3 Will you look at them weekend soldiers.

1976 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird ix. 120 The boat was..full of tanned, husky weekend sailors.

1990 Reader's Digest Aug. 134/1 My father, a weekend golfer, was understandably excited when he got a hole in one.

1999 BBC Gardeners' World Apr. 135/2 (advt.) Whether you are a full time grower, a weekend gardener or just enjoy the idea of a greenhouse.

C2.

weekend Air Force n. R.A.F. slang (now historical) a British auxiliary air force composed of civilian volunteers.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > air force > [noun] > auxiliary

Auxiliary Air Force1917

weekend Air Force1943

1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 62 Week-end Air Force, The, the Auxiliary Air Force. It was formed in 1925, its officers and men being citizens who gave week-ends and other part-time to their duties.

2007 Sevenoaks Chron. (Nexis) 15 Feb. 15 Thousands of local people remember the Weekend Air Force with great affection. These enthusiastic boys were keen to prove that, as amateurs, they could be equal in combat to any regular RAF pilot.

weekend edition n. a newspaper edition published at the weekend; (also) a television or radio programme broadcast at the weekend.

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1901 North London Mercury & Crouch End Observer 9 Jan. 7 (advt.) Get the Cheapest Advertisement in our ‘Hornsey Daily Advertiser’, also in our Three Week-end Editions.

1955 Billboard 12 Mar. 50/1 The weekend editions of the Journal-American, World-Telegram and Post were similarly favored.

1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Late City Final ed.) d34/1 Miss Savitch served as the anchor of weekend editions of ‘The NBC Nightly News’ and ‘NBC News Digests’.

2000 B. Rainey & A. R. Escue Mother's Legacy 147 She..is a cohost on..the weekend edition of the radio program Family Life Today.

weekend father n. a father who mainly sees his children at weekends, esp. as a result of having been divorced or separated from their mother.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > [noun] > weekend father

weekend father1932

1932 Christian Sci. Monitor 20 Feb. 1/4 How to help ‘week-end fathers’ to realize what they are missing and to do something about it.

1962 Jrnl. Family Law 2 104 The law is, in fact, uncertain as to the rights of the ex-spouse. Consequently, it seems even more uncertain about the privileges which the law should extend to the children with ‘weekend fathers’.

2005 E. Barr Plan B (2006) xxxix. 404 When they were used to each other again they chatted perfectly naturally, but for the first few hours, Hugh knew he acted the weekend father, and he hated himself for it.

weekend school n. a school held at the weekend; one that gives classes at the weekend. [Probably after day school n. 2 or Sunday school n.]

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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school

writing schoola1475

rectory1536

spelling school1704

greycoat1706

rural school1734

Charter School1763

home school1770

Philanthropine1797

British school1819

side school1826

prep school1829

trade school1829

Progymnasium1833

finishing-school1836

field schoola1840

field school1846

prairie school1851

graded school1852

model school1854

Philanthropinum1856

stagiary school1861

grade school1869

middle school1870

language school1878

correspondence school1889

day continuation school1889

prep1891

Sunday school1901

farm school1903

weekend school1907

Charter School1912

folk high school1914

pre-kindergarten1922

Rabfak1924

cram-shop1926

free school1926

crammer1931

composite school1943

outward-bound1943

blackboard jungle1954

pathshala1956

Vo-Tech1956

St. Trinian's1958

juku1962

cadre school1966

telecentre1967

academy2000

academy school2000

1907 Friends' Intelligencer 21 Sept. 606/2 It has been arranged to hold a Week-end School on the Land Problem at Scalby..from the 18th to 21st October.

1962 J. Braine Life at Top x. 136 I came to each and every week-end school here.

2007 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 17 Sept. 6 Volunteers are needed to help run a weekend school. The Headstart Science and Maths School is looking for people to help run it for two hours.

weekend warrior n. chiefly North American (sometimes depreciative) (a) a member of a part-time or reserve military force, esp. one who participates in drills at weekends; (b) a person who works during the week, esp. in an office or other indoor job, and participates in more physical or dangerous sports and activities at the weekends.

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1931 Aeroplane 1 July 31 (caption) Week-end warriors—A squadron of the Auxiliary Air Force taking off.

1944 Pop. Photogr. Oct. 162/2 (advt.) Weekend warriors. Civilians are flying now in the Naval Air Reserve.

1986 E. R. Beck Under Bombs viii. 160 Until the enemy stood before their doors, they [sc. the Volkssturm] remained basically weekend warriors.

1992 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 12 July (Final ed.) a5 While the weekend warriors spend 12 days firing weapons, reading maps and learning about chemical warfare, they try not to worry about the nightly news of deaths and injuries.

1995 J. Cullen Civil War Pop. Culture vi. 176 Although many..are simply weekend warriors.., there are some..who approach the Civil War with diligence and passion.

2003 W. Rawlings Lazard Legacy xvi. 137 Get these weekend warriors away from their cookie cutter subdivisions and suddenly they're Daniel Boone, hard-drinking and armed to the teeth.

Derivatives

weekˈendize v. intransitive to go away for the weekend.Apparently an isolated use.

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1910 R. Bridges Let. 21 June in R. Bridges & H. Bradley Corr. (1940) 77 I was glad to get your note saying that you wd week-endize.

weekˈendy adj. suggestive or characteristic of the weekend.

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society > leisure > [adjective] > suggestive of the weekend

weekendy1924

1924 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos Tribune 16 June 6/3 She doesn't want her house to be artistic or week-endy or show-placey.

1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement xi. 567 She spent the next few minutes getting from the bus to the station, which was very crowded and week-endy.

1976 G. Ewart No Fool ii. 61 Would you admire what's trendy..or see virtue in what's suburban or weekendy?

2012 Times (Nexis) 10 Nov. (Weekend section) 2 He'd done all the usual weekendy stuff—watched a few films, cooked a Sunday roast, helped his kids with their homework.

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

单词	weekend
释义	weekendn. Brit. /ˌwiːkˈɛnd/, /ˈwiːkɛnd/, U.S. /ˈwikˌɛnd/ Forms: see week n. and end n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: week n., end n. Etymology: < week n. + end n. Compare earlier weekday n. 2 and 3, and week n. 4. †1. The conclusion of a week's time. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 315 (MED) At þe woke ende spake þe ermyte. 2. The end of the week. Cf. year-end n. rare before 20th cent.Usually as two words, or hyphenated. ΚΠ 1638 in Victoria County Hist. Yorkshire (1912) II. 415/2 The greatest weight of the said exaction will fall upon very poor people..who making every week a coarse kersey and being compelled to sell the same at the week end..are nevertheless constrained to yield one half penny apiece. 1910 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 19 Feb. 445/1 The base price of 60 per cent. zinc ore..dropped to $40 at midweek; at week end there was practically no base price and very few sales. 1934 Economist 26 May 1151/1 In Berlin, the Debt Conference is faced with the prospect of a break-up, before week-end, without agreement. 2008 U. B. Singh Time Managem. iii. 120 Getting the predetermined job quota for the week completed by week end. 3. a. The period between two working weeks, typically regarded as a time for leisure or recreation. Also with distinguishing word indicating an activity pursued during this period.The usual sense.Since the advent of the five-day working week, the weekend has usually been characterized as extending from Saturday morning or Friday evening until Sunday night. During the late 19th century, a British worker's leisure period often began on Saturday at noon.activity, dirty, long, lost weekend, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > weekend weekend1793 Saturday-to-Monday1874 weekend1889 society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > weekend weekend1879 long weekend1899 1793 W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 27 Feb. (1965) i. 70 Wrote to Dewe that I would put on my seven league boots next weekend and stretch my course to Appleby. 1844 Age & Argus 13 Apr. 2/3 I am not one of those who think that Almighty God ever designed that human beings should be employed from morn to night—from week end to week end. 1870 Food Jrnl. Mar. 97 ‘Week-end’, that is from Saturday until Monday,—it may be a later day in the week if the money and credit hold out,—is the season of dissipation. 1879 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 12 428/2 In Staffordshire, if a person leaves home at the end of his week's work on the Saturday afternoon to spend the evening of Saturday and the following Sunday with friends at a distance, he is said to be spending his week-end at So-and-so. 1905 Spectator 26 Aug. 289/1 What a ‘week-end’ it must have been for the host, whatever it may have been for the guest. 1920 T. S. Eliot Let. Sept. (1988) I. 406 I should have written to Violet to say how much I enjoyed the weekend. We must not let our theatricals drop! 1937 Times 26 Nov. 21/5 The letter began with old Lady Chervil's unvarying formula:—My dear Mrs. Miniver, Chervil and I shall be delighted if you and your Husband will stay with us from Friday 19th to Monday 22nd November. (She would have gone to the guillotine sooner than use the expression ‘week-end’. 1958 P. Marris Widows & their Families ii. 12 One of the things I miss most is our camping weekends. I used to be as happy as a sandboy. 1996 H. Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary (1997) 67 Message Jones... Have a good weekend. Pip pip. 2005 J. McKinney California's National Parks 306 Sometimes 5000 Southlanders a weekend would come to swim, fish, picnic and enjoy the amusement rides. b. spec. This period spent away from home; a weekend spent at work or in recreation. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > weekend weekend1793 Saturday-to-Monday1874 weekend1889 1889 M. E. Braddon Day will Come III. iii. 38 Theodore and his friend betook themselves to Cheriton Chase on the following Friday, for that kind of visit which north country people describe as ‘a week end’. 1930 Air July 292 The Prime Minister and Miss Ishbel MacDonald emplaning for a week-end in Edinburgh. 1988 W. Balliett Amer. Singers (2005) 110 In the early fifties, I did a weekend at a hotel on Virginia Beach. c. British colloquial (euphemistic). something (also anything) for the weekend: a condom, or a supply of condoms. Also in extended use: a sexual aid, an aphrodisiac, etc.Popularly considered to originate in a euphemistic question put by barbers to their customers. ΚΠ 1968 Link (New Delhi) 25 Feb. 31/1 Fathers were urged that when the barber asked them whether they wanted anything for the weekend, they should ‘demand British letters’. 1972 Wonderful World of Sounds in Monty Python's Previous Record (gramophone record) A herd of zebras visiting the same chemist to ask for something for the weekend. 1986 A. Coren Something for Weekend 7 And..to deal with his ritual valediction ‘Something for the weekend?’ ‘No.’ ‘You didn't mind me asking?’ ‘Of course not.’ ‘It's traditional.’ 1987 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Jan. Barbers would ask our fathers: ‘Anything for the weekend, sir?’ 1998 Independent (Electronic ed.) 10 July 5 As the body-builders..were paying for their tins of powdered protein, they used to give me a wink and ask if I had anything for their wives, something for the weekend. 1999 Times (Nexis) 11 Aug. The days when a Friday night visit to the barber's shop ended with the whispered enquiry: ‘Anything for the weekend, Sir?’ are long past. 4. The weekly period (esp. from Friday evening to Monday morning) during which business is suspended or reduced, and shops are closed.In recent years shops and other businesses have tended to open more at weekends, and this sense has begun to merge with sense 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > weekend > during which shops, etc., are closed weekend1852 non-day1856 1852 Morning Chron. 1 Jan. 3/6 Damping the fire down at night, and over the week end..and sometimes allowing it to be out on Sunday, would naturally slacken the ventilation. 1878 J. Almond Bunch of Watercresses 4 If I get my 'bacco now, I can manage to see th' week-end o'er very well. 1913 Times 13 Sept. 17/3 The Money Market was steady with a fair demand for advances over the week-end at about previous rates. 1950 N. Frye Diary 29 July (2001) 419 The stationer's shops on Harvard Square were all closed for the weekend. 2012 A. Rudnick Recovery of People with Mental Illness ii. 18 Any person who was admitted at the weekend would automatically be sedated without being seen by a doctor. 5. The last day of the week; Saturday. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > specific days > [noun] > Saturday SaturdayeOE seventh dayOE fore-sabbath1656 weekend1880 1880 C. H. Poole Attempt Gloss. Stafford Week-end, Saturday. 1921 Writer's Monthly Oct. 328 Persons who went to the country to pass Saturday and Sunday were not ‘week-end’ visitors. The week-end is Saturday, Mr. Bennett maintained. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. With the sense ‘for use at or only at the weekend; appropriate to the weekend’, as weekend bag, weekend case, weekend cottage, weekend ticket, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag > hand-held mailc1275 clothesack1393 cloak-bagc1540 portmanteau1553 valance?a1562 pockmanty1575 cap-case1577 cloak-bearer1580 night baga1618 valisea1630 toilet1656 Roger1665 shirt case1823 weekend case1827 carpet-bag1830 holdall1851 handbag1859 suitcase1873 sample case1875 gripsack1877 case1879 grip1879 Gladstone (bag)1882 traveller1895 vanity-case1913 luggage1915 revelation1923 two-suiter1923 overnight bag1925 one-suiter1933 suiter1933 overnight case1934 Samsonite1939 flight bag1943 Pullman1946 grip-bag1958 overnighter1959 carry-on1960 Vuitton1975 go bag1991 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > summer house or holiday house summer houseOE pleasure house1590 mahal1610 aestivation1625 summer cottage1638 cottage1805 Swiss cottage1820 summer home1821 casita1822 chalet1853 bathing-box1883 rest home1889 dacha1896 housekeeping cottage1901 weekend cottage1911 weekender1921 bach1940 hafod1952 gite1964 getaway1968 vacation home1969 timeshare1974 share1984 society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag cloak-bagc1540 mallet1612 Peter1667 sac de nuit1814 carpet-bag1830 roll-up1831 pikau1836 travelling bag1838 swag1853 suit bag1869 bluey1878 Matilda1889 shiralee1892 port1898 handgrip1915 sea-bag1918 blanket pack1920 weekender1929 valpack1934 weekend bag1946 swag bag1951 1827 Lancaster Gaz. 28 Apr. The pauper's father was to find him..week-end victuals (by which she said was meant Saturday night's supper, Sunday's victuals, and Monday's breakfast). 1863 Newcastle Courant 6 Nov. 4/1 Week end tickets.—First, Second, and Third Class Return Tickets (at the same price as Market Tickets) are issued..on Saturday and Sunday Morning. 1911 ‘Saki’ in Bystander 12 Apr. 70/2 I've seen a week-end cottage near Dorking that I should rather like to buy. 1946 C. McCullers Member of Wedding i. 10 At dark John Henry came to the back door with a little week-end bag. 1952 ‘M. Cost’ Hour Awaits 136 She carried a small, smart week-end case of crocodile. 1971 Times 2 July 2/2 Lamb should be an excellent choice for the weekend joint. 1999 F. McCourt 'Tis xii. 95 That got him confined to barracks and no weekend pass for three weeks. b. With the sense ‘occurring or taking place at the weekend; lasting all weekend’, as weekend break, weekend course, weekend getaway, weekend leave, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > leave of absence > for armed forces furlough1631 leaf1846 weekend leave1924 society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > class or course > types of summer session1594 evening class1762 summer school1793 training course1822 shop class1844 elective1850 optional1855 night class1870 correspondence class1876 Chautauqua1884 correspondence course1902 gut1902 holiday course1906 shop1912 pud1917 training seminar1917 film school1929 day school1931 refresher1939 farm shop1941 survey course1941 weekend course1944 crash programme1947 sandwich course1955 thick sandwich1962 module1966 bird course1975 society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [adjective] weekend1958 1871 Bell's Life in London 17 June 8/1 The fares would be reduced, at least during the fishing season, for week-end excursions. 1896 F. M. T. Palsgrave List Words & Phrases Hetton-le-Hole (at cited word) ‘Week~end trips’ are now advertised on most of the [railway] lines. 1924 R. Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 316 You live like a home defence Brigadier, besides week-end leaf [sic]. 1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 117 Short weekend courses and longer ‘study workshops’ for teachers. 1958 O. Caroe Pathans xxv. 418 Roos-Keppel did indeed start his tour of office with two small operations the scale of which is sufficiently shown by the fact that one of them was called the week~end war. 1985 New Scientist 29 Aug. 72/1 Deep freezers were said to be the beginning of the withering of weekend shopping because they made it unnecessary to buy in small amounts. 1996 Holiday Which? Jan. 6/2 Palma is an ideal destination for a weekend break. 2005 DreamScapes Mar. 2/1 Whether I'm heading off for a weekend getaway or three weeks, I never travel with more than one roll-aboard and a small knapsack. c. With the sense ‘carrying out an activity at or only at the weekend; (hence) doing something purely for pleasure, or in an amateur or casual way (sometimes used depreciatively, implying superficiality)’, as weekend athlete, weekend gardener, weekend motorist, weekend sailor, weekend soldier, etc. Cf. Sunday n. and adv. Compounds 1e. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > gardener > [noun] > types of gardener arborist1578 nursery gardener1629 nurseryman1629 raiser1707 kitchen gardener1709 market gardener1727 curator1761 landscape-gardenera1763 plannerc1770 mail-gardener1798 landscape architect1863 trucker1868 plantsman1881 weekend gardener1884 groundsman1886 rock gardener1886 tea-gardener1903 landscapist1936 wild gardener1966 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of motor vehicle > who drives only at weekends Sunday driver1877 weekend motorist1884 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > athlete gamer1564 athletic1682 athlete1822 gymnasiarch1825 weekend athlete1941 thin-clad1947 Olympian1977 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > auxiliary or reserve volunteer1642 redif1836 home guard1850 reservist1854 reserve1897 Saturday night soldier1911 weekend soldier1970 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > [noun] > casual or amateur sailor boater1866 weekend sailor1976 1884 G. W. Turner Picturesque Wales 106 (advt.) Cheap Return Tickets For Week-end Visitors. 1917 Printers' Ink 6 Dec. 144/2 To make a window display every Saturday to catch the week-end shoppers. 1935 Discovery Oct. 314/1 The publisher suggests that English Earth will interest equally the farmer and the week-end motorist. 1941 Time 30 June 31/1 Week-end athletes should be careful. 1970 New Yorker 3 Oct. 40/3 Will you look at them weekend soldiers. 1976 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird ix. 120 The boat was..full of tanned, husky weekend sailors. 1990 Reader's Digest Aug. 134/1 My father, a weekend golfer, was understandably excited when he got a hole in one. 1999 BBC Gardeners' World Apr. 135/2 (advt.) Whether you are a full time grower, a weekend gardener or just enjoy the idea of a greenhouse. C2. weekend Air Force n. R.A.F. slang (now historical) a British auxiliary air force composed of civilian volunteers. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > air force > [noun] > auxiliary Auxiliary Air Force1917 weekend Air Force1943 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 62 Week-end Air Force, The, the Auxiliary Air Force. It was formed in 1925, its officers and men being citizens who gave week-ends and other part-time to their duties. 2007 Sevenoaks Chron. (Nexis) 15 Feb. 15 Thousands of local people remember the Weekend Air Force with great affection. These enthusiastic boys were keen to prove that, as amateurs, they could be equal in combat to any regular RAF pilot. weekend edition n. a newspaper edition published at the weekend; (also) a television or radio programme broadcast at the weekend. ΚΠ 1901 North London Mercury & Crouch End Observer 9 Jan. 7 (advt.) Get the Cheapest Advertisement in our ‘Hornsey Daily Advertiser’, also in our Three Week-end Editions. 1955 Billboard 12 Mar. 50/1 The weekend editions of the Journal-American, World-Telegram and Post were similarly favored. 1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Late City Final ed.) d34/1 Miss Savitch served as the anchor of weekend editions of ‘The NBC Nightly News’ and ‘NBC News Digests’. 2000 B. Rainey & A. R. Escue Mother's Legacy 147 She..is a cohost on..the weekend edition of the radio program Family Life Today. weekend father n. a father who mainly sees his children at weekends, esp. as a result of having been divorced or separated from their mother. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > [noun] > weekend father weekend father1932 1932 Christian Sci. Monitor 20 Feb. 1/4 How to help ‘week-end fathers’ to realize what they are missing and to do something about it. 1962 Jrnl. Family Law 2 104 The law is, in fact, uncertain as to the rights of the ex-spouse. Consequently, it seems even more uncertain about the privileges which the law should extend to the children with ‘weekend fathers’. 2005 E. Barr Plan B (2006) xxxix. 404 When they were used to each other again they chatted perfectly naturally, but for the first few hours, Hugh knew he acted the weekend father, and he hated himself for it. weekend school n. a school held at the weekend; one that gives classes at the weekend. [Probably after day school n. 2 or Sunday school n.] ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school writing schoola1475 rectory1536 spelling school1704 greycoat1706 rural school1734 Charter School1763 home school1770 Philanthropine1797 British school1819 side school1826 prep school1829 trade school1829 Progymnasium1833 finishing-school1836 field schoola1840 field school1846 prairie school1851 graded school1852 model school1854 Philanthropinum1856 stagiary school1861 grade school1869 middle school1870 language school1878 correspondence school1889 day continuation school1889 prep1891 Sunday school1901 farm school1903 weekend school1907 Charter School1912 folk high school1914 pre-kindergarten1922 Rabfak1924 cram-shop1926 free school1926 crammer1931 composite school1943 outward-bound1943 blackboard jungle1954 pathshala1956 Vo-Tech1956 St. Trinian's1958 juku1962 cadre school1966 telecentre1967 academy2000 academy school2000 1907 Friends' Intelligencer 21 Sept. 606/2 It has been arranged to hold a Week-end School on the Land Problem at Scalby..from the 18th to 21st October. 1962 J. Braine Life at Top x. 136 I came to each and every week-end school here. 2007 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 17 Sept. 6 Volunteers are needed to help run a weekend school. The Headstart Science and Maths School is looking for people to help run it for two hours. weekend warrior n. chiefly North American (sometimes depreciative) (a) a member of a part-time or reserve military force, esp. one who participates in drills at weekends; (b) a person who works during the week, esp. in an office or other indoor job, and participates in more physical or dangerous sports and activities at the weekends. ΚΠ 1931 Aeroplane 1 July 31 (caption) Week-end warriors—A squadron of the Auxiliary Air Force taking off. 1944 Pop. Photogr. Oct. 162/2 (advt.) Weekend warriors. Civilians are flying now in the Naval Air Reserve. 1986 E. R. Beck Under Bombs viii. 160 Until the enemy stood before their doors, they [sc. the Volkssturm] remained basically weekend warriors. 1992 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 12 July (Final ed.) a5 While the weekend warriors spend 12 days firing weapons, reading maps and learning about chemical warfare, they try not to worry about the nightly news of deaths and injuries. 1995 J. Cullen Civil War Pop. Culture vi. 176 Although many..are simply weekend warriors.., there are some..who approach the Civil War with diligence and passion. 2003 W. Rawlings Lazard Legacy xvi. 137 Get these weekend warriors away from their cookie cutter subdivisions and suddenly they're Daniel Boone, hard-drinking and armed to the teeth. Derivatives weekˈendize v. intransitive to go away for the weekend.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1910 R. Bridges Let. 21 June in R. Bridges & H. Bradley Corr. (1940) 77 I was glad to get your note saying that you wd week-endize. weekˈendy adj. suggestive or characteristic of the weekend. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [adjective] > suggestive of the weekend weekendy1924 1924 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos Tribune 16 June 6/3 She doesn't want her house to be artistic or week-endy or show-placey. 1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement xi. 567 She spent the next few minutes getting from the bus to the station, which was very crowded and week-endy. 1976 G. Ewart No Fool ii. 61 Would you admire what's trendy..or see virtue in what's suburban or weekendy? 2012 Times (Nexis) 10 Nov. (Weekend section) 2 He'd done all the usual weekendy stuff—watched a few films, cooked a Sunday roast, helped his kids with their homework. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). weekendv. Brit. /ˌwiːkˈɛnd/, /ˈwiːkɛnd/, U.S. /ˈwikˌɛnd/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: weekend n. Etymology: < weekend n. Compare earlier weekender n. and weekending n. colloquial. intransitive. To spend the weekend in a certain place, esp. for recreation. Frequently with at, in, etc.In quot. 1928: to travel to a specified place, in order to spend the weekend there. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > holiday-making or tourism > go on holiday or tour [verb (intransitive)] village1819 tourize1837 vacation1896 weekend1901 1901 Daily Chron. 31 July 7/2 Where shall we week end? 1914 A. M. N. Lyons Simple Simon i. iii. 42 He week-ends at Paris-Plage. 1928 Daily Express 17 Apr. 12/4 I have week-ended leisurely by airplane to Brunswick. 1955 Arizona (Phoenix) Republic 2 July 19/1 She weekends at his place on Fire Island. 1987 Country Living Nov. 56/1 The guests included..a couple who weekend down here..from Stockport. 2001 T. S. Hischak Amer. Theatre 294/1 The foursome hit it off and a month later are weekending in Stephen's beach house in the Hamptons. 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