Meaning

5 senses

  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.

    any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday)

  2. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.

  3. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)

  4. (Judaism)Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.

  5. (archaic)Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday).

Examples

33 sentences

  1. Shops are quiet on weekdays.

    На вихідних у крамницях спокійно. — menix

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  2. I wear white shirts on weekdays.

    ruПо будням я ношу белую рубашку. — ktoy21lang

    deWerktags trage ich weiße Hemden. — Waldelfe

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  3. Tom is always busy on weekdays.

    ruПо будням Том всегда занят. — marafon

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  4. We're open in the mornings on weekdays.

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  5. What's your favorite way to relax on a weekday evening?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
day of the week, excluding weekends:
Русский
By meaning 1
day of the week, excluding weekends:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
day of the week, excluding weekends:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ (“weekday”), from Proto-Wes

Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ (“weekday”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikadag, from Proto-Germanic *wikadagaz (“weekday”). By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Low German Wekendag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”), Faroese vikudagur (“weekday”), Icelandic vikudagur (“weekday”).

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Forms

plural: weekdays

Synonyms

3 synonyms
day on which work is done in legal and official usage:business day
workdayworking day

Word family

4 related words
RelatedweekA1weeknight
Derivedweekdailyweekdayish

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
weedB2weekA1weekdaysweekendA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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