Meaning

6 senses
  1. Someone who visits a place for a weekend break.

    someone who vacations on a weekend

  2. Someone who takes part in a sport or similar event at weekends.

  3. A place used primarily for weekends away.

    We have a nice little weekender up in the mountains.

  4. An event that takes place over a weekend.

  5. A small liveaboard boat, suitable for short-term accommodation but not a permanent residence.

  6. A person who serves jailtime or other criminal penalties only on the weekend, as part of a special program.

Origin

From weekend + -er.

From weekend + -er.

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Forms

plural: weekenders
Singularweekender
Pluralweekenders

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedweekend

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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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