weekend1 nounweekend2 verb
weekendweek‧end1 /ˌwiːkˈend◂ ˈwiːkend $ ˈwiːkend/ ●●● S1 W2 noun [countable] 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Robert also works a part-time job on weekends to make ends meet.
- You've won a weekend for two in Chicago!
- Her policy of not dating frivolously is fine, theoretically, but makes for long, lonely weekends.
- I worried about that, but I slept there every weekend.
- It will be stored over the weekend at Winfrith and on Tuesday will arrive at Dounreay for reprocessing.
- Next weekend the county's Schools and Industry Association runs a series of workshops during a two-day business education partnership conference.
- Summer rates start at $ 230 on weekends.
WORD SETS
AD, advance, verbafter, prepositionafternoon, nounalarm, nounalarm clock, nouna.m., Anno Domini, annual, adjectiveApril, nounAsh Wednesday, nounAug., August, nounautumn, nounautumnal, adjectivebank holiday, nounBC, BCE, biannual, adjectivebicentenary, nounbicentennial, nounbiennial, adjectivebimonthly, adjectivebirthday, nounbiweekly, adjectivebonfire night, nounBoxing Day, nounBritish Summer Time, nounBST, nouncalendar, nouncalendar month, nouncalendar year, nouncarriage clock, nouncentenary, nouncentury, nounChristmas, nounChristmas Day, nounChristmas Eve, nounChristmastime, nounchronograph, nounchronological, adjectivechronometer, nouncircadian, adjectiveclock, nouncrystal, nouncuckoo clock, nouncycle, nouncyclic, adjectivedaily, adjectivedaily, adverbdate, noundate, verbdawn, nounday, nounDec., decade, nounDecember, noundiamond anniversary, noundiamond jubilee, noundinnertime, noundiurnal, adjectived.o.b., due date, noundusk, nounface, nounFather's Day, nounfeast, nounFebruary, nounfortnightly, adjectiveFourth of July, the, Fri., Friday, nounGood Friday, nounGreenwich Mean Time, nounGregorian calendar, nounguy, nounGuy Fawkes Night, nounhalf-hourly, adjectivehalf-yearly, adjectiveHalloween, nounhand, nounHanukkah, nounharvest festival, nounHogmanay, nounhorn, nounhour, nounhourglass, nounhour hand, nounhr, Independence Day, nounJan., January, nounjubilee, nounJuly, nounJune, nounLabor Day, nounleap year, nounlunar month, nounmainspring, nounman-hour, nounMar., March, nounMardi Gras, nounmarket day, nounMaundy Thursday, nounMay, nounMay Day, nounMichaelmas, nounmidday, nounmiddle age, nounmiddle-aged, adjectivemidnight, nounMidsummer Day, nounmidweek, adjectivemillennium, nounmin., minute hand, nounMon., Monday, nounmonth, nounmorn, nounmorning, nounMothering Sunday, nounMother's Day, nounmovable feast, nounnew moon, nounNew Year, nounNew Year's Day, nounNew Year's Eve, nounnight, nounnightfall, nounnighttime, nounnocturnal, adjectiveNoel, nounnoon, nounnoonday, adjectiveNov., November, nounOct., October, nounp.a., Pancake Day, nounPDT, penultimate, adjectiveper annum, adverbper diem, adverbperiodic, adjectivep.m., PST, public holiday, nounquarter, nounquotidian, adjectiveRemembrance Day, nounSat., Saturday, nounschoolday, nounseason, nounsecond, nounsecond hand, nounself-winding, adjectiveSeptember, nounshockproof, adjectivesilver anniversary, nounsilver jubilee, nounsilver wedding anniversary, nounsolar year, nounsolstice, nounspring, nounspringtime, nounstandard time, nounstopwatch, nounsummer, nounsummer solstice, nounsummertime, nounsummery, adjectiveSun., Sunday, nounsundown, nounsunrise, nounsunset, nounsun-up, nountercentenary, nounThanksgiving, nounthirty, numberThursday, nountime, nountime, verbtimepiece, nountimer, nountime signal, nountime warp, nountime zone, nountoday, adverbtoday, nountomorrow, adverbtomorrow, nountonight, adverbtonight, nountriennial, adjectiveTuesday, nountwilight, nounWed., Wednesday, nounweek, nounweekday, nounweekend, nounweekly, adjectiveweeknight, nounWhit, nounWhitsun, nounwinter, nounwintertime, nounwk., wristwatch, nounyear, nounyesterday, adverbyr., Yule, nounYuletide, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + weekend
The service runs on alternate days. We spent the Easter holidays in Wales. Big Bear Lake is a popular weekend getaway. Did you have a good vacation? I get paid more if I work nights. We’re sometimes expected to work twelve-hour days.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Are you going sailing this weekend?
· I’m going to Palm Springs next weekend.
· We were in Glasgow last weekend.
· The talks had been scheduled for the previous weekend.
· The intention was to complete the work the following weekend.
(=Saturday, Sunday, and also Friday or Monday or both)· In August we had a long weekend in the Lake District.
(=a weekend that has days before or after it which are holidays)· The roads were jammed on the Friday before the holiday weekend.
weekend + NOUN British English (=a holiday that lasts a weekend)· She was looking forward to her weekend break in Paris.
British English (=a house you have in the country, where you spend your weekends)· A friend of mine has a weekend cottage on the South Coast, and we often go down there in summer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The service runs on alternate days. (=a weekend on which there is a bank holiday on Friday or Monday)
(=that the owners go to at weekends or in the summer)· They live in London but they also have a weekend cottage by the sea.
British English (=a weekend when a man and woman who are not married to each other go away to have sex)
We spent the Easter holidays in Wales. Big Bear Lake is a popular weekend getaway. Did you have a good vacation? I get paid more if I work nights. We’re sometimes expected to work twelve-hour days.· Meanwhile upstream at Bankside an estimated 75,000 visited Tate Modern last weekend.· With lanes closed and hungry sheep on the Ridgeway, prosperous west Berkshire looked disease-free but quietly miserable last weekend.
· So for a little over £100 it is easy to spend a long weekend in Paris in the spring, summer or whenever.· About half the normal amount of trades took place as traders were reluctant to place bets ahead of the long weekend.· Would you like a long weekend in the country courtesy of Citroën?· During the school year, long weekends are good opportunities to explore together.· Or get an early start on that long weekend commute, then catch up from home.· The long weekend also gave me time to myself to rest and ponder on all that had gone and was to come.· Her policy of not dating frivolously is fine, theoretically, but makes for long, lonely weekends.
NOUN· Special weekend breaks are on offer at many hotels.· A two night self-drive weekend break from their Winter-Inn programme staying at Les Trois Mousquetaires costs £181 per person high season.· Birmingham is a great city for a weekend break.· For at Craigendarroch we have more to offer you than a luxurious weekend break.· When they returned to finish the work after a weekend break, they found parts of the posts missing and broken.· Remember not to contact Sunday newspaper journalists on Monday - they will be having their weekend break!· I left for my weekend break after those first five days wanting to hug everyone I met.
· I first heard of La Chupacabra over the Easter weekend while visiting family in Laredo.· Over the Easter weekend there were complaints that the toilets were closed as early as five p.m.· To the surprise of many, and regardless of the approaching Easter weekend, a string of real-life cash-in-hand buyers appeared.· These consisted mainly of leisure bookings, particularly for the coming Easter weekend, which almost dried up during the election campaign.
· If football's not your game ... you can bank on a feast of other sports this holiday weekend.· The incident happened over a holiday weekend.· The rest of the bank holiday weekend passed slowly.· The deadline comes in the middle of the Presidents' Day holiday weekend.· Some outlying villages were still under several feet of water yesterday and weathermen warned of more to come in the holiday weekend.· Marsha can not reach a doctor during the four-day holiday weekend.· Until then, goodnight and a good bank holiday weekend.· Perhaps, this morning, there is something at the office he must look into before the long holiday weekend.
VERB· Baldwin had spent the weekend partly in London and partly at Chequers.· I spent the whole weekend reading and re-reading it.· We did not venture near the fields again until a friend with children came to spend a weekend.· If all goes as planned, Autumn Jackson and Jose Medina are spending their last weekend in federal custody.· I spent the weekend in a Nissan Almera Sport which takes 11 seconds to get from 0 to 60.· The embassy spokesman said she had spent the weekend on a family visit to Britain, where she was born and raised.· He and I spent a happy weekend visiting London together.· Wilson is spending this weekend in Florida.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► of an evening/of a weekend etc
Saturday and Sunday, especially considered as time when you do not work: - About half the normal amount of trades took place as traders were reluctant to place bets ahead of the long weekend.
- During the school year, long weekends are good opportunities to explore together.
- It had been a long weekend for both of them.
- Or get an early start on that long weekend commute, then catch up from home.
- So for a little over £100 it is easy to spend a long weekend in Paris in the spring, summer or whenever.
- The long weekend also gave me time to myself to rest and ponder on all that had gone and was to come.
- Would you like a long weekend in the country courtesy of Citroën?
Are you doing anything nice this weekend?last/next weekend (=the weekend before or after this one)at the weekend British English, on the weekend American English I never work at the weekend. What are you doing on the weekend?at weekends British English, on weekends American English I only see him at weekends. Tony has been unwell over the weekend (=during the weekend). We’re going to Paris for a long weekend (=Saturday and Sunday, and also Friday or Monday, or both).weekend cottage/cabin etc (=a place in the country where you spend your weekends) → dirty weekend at dirty1(2)GRAMMAR: Patterns with weekendat the weekend• You use at the weekend in British English, when saying that something happens on Saturday or Sunday: · I went shopping at the weekend. ✗Don’t say: I went shopping at weekend. | in weekendon the weekend• You use on the weekend in American English, when saying that something happens on Saturday or Sunday: · I went shopping on the weekend. ✗Don’t say: I went shopping on weekend. | in weekendat weekends/on weekendsYou use these expressions when saying that something usually or regularly happens on Saturday or Sunday: · She is only home at weekends (BrE).· She is only home on weekends (AmE). ✗Don’t say: She is only home on weekend. | She is only home in weekend(s).this/next/last weekend• Don’t use at or in with these words.• You say this weekend: · The festival will be held this weekend. ✗Don’t say: The festival will be held at this weekend.• You say next weekend: · Will you come to my house next weekend? ✗Don’t say: Will you come to my house in next weekend?• You say last weekend: · I visited my grandparents last weekend. ✗Don’t say: I visited my grandparents at last weekend.COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + weekendthis weekend· Are you going sailing this weekend?next weekend· I’m going to Palm Springs next weekend.last weekend· We were in Glasgow last weekend.the previous weekend· The talks had been scheduled for the previous weekend.the following weekend· The intention was to complete the work the following weekend.a long weekend (=Saturday, Sunday, and also Friday or Monday or both)· In August we had a long weekend in the Lake District.a holiday weekend (=a weekend that has days before or after it which are holidays)· The roads were jammed on the Friday before the holiday weekend.weekend + NOUNa weekend break British English (=a holiday that lasts a weekend)· She was looking forward to her weekend break in Paris.a weekend cottage British English (=a house you have in the country, where you spend your weekends)· A friend of mine has a weekend cottage on the South Coast, and we often go down there in summer.weekend1 nounweekend2 verb
weekendweekend2 verb [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] VERB TABLE
weekend
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | weekend |
| he, she, it | weekends | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | weekended |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have weekended |
| he, she, it | has weekended | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had weekended |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will weekend |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have weekended |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am weekending |
| he, she, it | is weekending | |
| you, we, they | are weekending | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was weekending |
| you, we, they | were weekending | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been weekending |
| he, she, it | has been weekending | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been weekending |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be weekending |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been weekending |
WORD SETS
airbed, nounalbum, nounamusement arcade, nounamusement park, nounaquarium, nounarcade, nounauditorium, nounbachelor party, nounball, nounballoon, nounballroom, nounballroom dancing, nounbank holiday, nounbanquet, nounbanqueting hall, nounbarhop, verbbash, nounbask, verbbean feast, nounbeauty contest, nounbeer mat, nounblock party, nounboathouse, nounbon vivant, nounbooking, nounbooze-up, nounbop, nounbouncer, nounbrasserie, nounbumper car, nounbus, verbcafé, nouncaff, nouncanteen, nouncard, nouncarnival, nouncarousel, nouncarry-out, nouncarvery, nouncassette player, nouncassette recorder, nounceilidh, nounchannel surfing, nouncheckroom, nouncircus, nouncloakroom, nounclosing time, nounclubbing, nouncoconut shy, nouncoffee house, nouncoffee shop, nouncommunity centre, nouncomp, nounconcession stand, nouncounty fair, nouncracker, noundating agency, nounday camp, noundesignated driver, noundinner dance, noundinner party, noundisco, noundiscotheque, noundive, noundiversion, noundivert, verbdo, noundoor prize, noundrinks party, nouneat, verbfad, nounfandango, nounfanzine, nounflower arranging, nounfootpath, nounfree house, noungame, nounget-together, nounhappy hour, nounholdall, nounhouse party, nounice skate, nounice-skate, verbjukebox, nounjumble, nounjumble sale, nounknitting needle, nounleisure centre, nounlending library, nounlounge, nounlounge bar, nounmacramé, nounmask, nounmasked ball, nounmasquerade, nounmaster of ceremonies, nounmatador, nounmaypole, nounMC, nounmen's room, nounmerrymaking, nounmixer, nounnightclub, nounnightlife, nounnight spot, nounoffice party, nounopening time, nounopen mike, nounorgy, nounouting, nounpageant, nounpageantry, nounPancake Day, nounparty, nounparty, verbparty favor, nounparty piece, nounpeepshow, nounpep rally, nounperm, verbpetting zoo, nounPG, nounpinball, nounpitch, nounpizzeria, nounpony-trekking, nounpostprandial, adjectivepress, nounpub, nounpub-crawl, nounpublican, nounpublic bar, nounquality time, nounquiz, nounR & R, nounradio-cassette player, nounraffle, nounraffle, verbrave, nounrecreation, nounrecreation room, nounrelaxation, nounrendezvous, nounrest room, nounrevel, verbreveller, nounrevelry, nounrifle range, nounroadhouse, nounroast, nounrodeo, nounRollerblade, nounroller skate, nounround, nounsaloon, nounsauna, nounset, adjectiveshooting gallery, nounshower, nounsideshow, nounsiesta, nounsingalong, nounsingsong, nounskinny-dipping, nounsnack bar, nounsnug, nounsocial, nounsoda fountain, nounsoiree, nounsolarium, nounspectator, nounspree, nounsteakhouse, nounstrip club, nounstrip joint, nounstripper, nounstrip show, nounstriptease, nounsummer camp, nounsummer holidays, nounsummer vacation, nounsunbed, nounsunlamp, nountable d'hôte, nountavern, nounteahouse, nountearoom, nountea shop, nountheme party, nounthree-star, adjectivetop table, nountrophy, nounTurkish bath, nounvacation, nounvideo arcade, nounwander, nounwassail, verbweekend, verbweekender, nounwindow-shopping, nounwomen's room, nounworkbasket, nounzoo, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The service runs on alternate days. We spent the Easter holidays in Wales. Big Bear Lake is a popular weekend getaway. Did you have a good vacation? I get paid more if I work nights. We’re sometimes expected to work twelve-hour days.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
The service runs on alternate days. (=a weekend on which there is a bank holiday on Friday or Monday)
(=that the owners go to at weekends or in the summer)· They live in London but they also have a weekend cottage by the sea.
British English (=a weekend when a man and woman who are not married to each other go away to have sex)
We spent the Easter holidays in Wales. Big Bear Lake is a popular weekend getaway. Did you have a good vacation? I get paid more if I work nights. We’re sometimes expected to work twelve-hour days.· I was flying away on weekends.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► of an evening/of a weekend etc
to spend the weekend somewhere: - About half the normal amount of trades took place as traders were reluctant to place bets ahead of the long weekend.
- During the school year, long weekends are good opportunities to explore together.
- It had been a long weekend for both of them.
- Or get an early start on that long weekend commute, then catch up from home.
- So for a little over £100 it is easy to spend a long weekend in Paris in the spring, summer or whenever.
- The long weekend also gave me time to myself to rest and ponder on all that had gone and was to come.
- Would you like a long weekend in the country courtesy of Citroën?
We’re weekending on the coast.