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Hallowe'ekend

Hallowe'ekend is the alternative form of Halloweekend.

Meaning of Halloweekend

Proper noun

Halloweekend (countable and uncountable, plural Halloweekends)

  1. (informal) The weekend where Halloween falls on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
    • Even if you've missed the Halloweekend memo, putting together a last-minute costume can still be easy and cheap.2011 October 27, Nissa Ostroff, “Last minute costume ideas”, in The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, page 6
  2. (informal) A weekend before or after Halloween, when Halloween festivities are celebrated, if the holiday does not fall on a weekend.

Origin of Hallowe'ekend

Blend of Hallowe'en + weekend.

Questions about Hallowe'ekend

What is Hallowe'ekend the alternative form of?
Hallowe'ekend is the alternative form of Halloweekend.

Words near Hallowe'ekend in the dictionary

  1. Halloway
  2. Halloways
  3. Hallowday
  4. hallowdom
  5. Hallowe'ek
  6. Hallowe'ekend
  7. Hallowe'en
  8. Hallowe'ener
  9. Hallowe'eners
  10. Hallowe'ens
  11. Hallowe'eny

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hallowe'ekend (page history and authors); Halloweekend (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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