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Weekday
//ˈwiːkdeɪ// noun
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Noun
- 1 Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
"The Nottingham to Skegness route and Robin Hood line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop will continue with their current weekday patterns; linked to the latter is EMR's commitment to carry out a feasibility study into operating Robin Hood trains to Ollerton."
- 2 any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday) wordnet
- 3 Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:; Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.
- 4 Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)
- 5 Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday. Judaism
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- 6 Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday). archaic
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ. By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”).
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