Weeknight

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The evening of a weekday.

    "On weeknights other than Saturdays, the last Bedford train leaves St. Pancras at 10.35 instead of 10.0 p.m. and is 20 min. faster, and the last Luton train at 11.35 instead of 11.15 p.m."

  2. 2
    any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday wordnet

Example

More examples

"You should go to bed earlier on a weeknight than over the weekend."

Etymology

From week + night.

Related phrases

school night

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