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long weekend

long weekend noun: a weekend extended by one or more days off falling on a day or days immediately preceding or following it.

Noun

long weekend (plural long weekends)

  1. A weekend extended by one or more days off falling on a day or days immediately preceding or following it.
    • Labor Day weekend is the long weekend that defines the end of Summer in the US.
    • I took a long weekend with my wife when no one else had a holiday.

Forms of long weekend

plurallong weekends

Words formed from long weekend

Questions about long weekend

What does long weekend mean?
Long weekend means a weekend extended by one or more days off falling on a day or days immediately preceding or following it.
What part of speech is long weekend?
Long weekend is a noun.
What is the plural of long weekend?
The plural of long weekend is long weekends.

Words near long weekend in the dictionary

  1. long wave
  2. long waves
  3. long way around
  4. long ways around
  5. long ways, long lies
  6. long weekend
  7. long weekends
  8. long whist
  9. long white radish
  10. long white radishes
  11. Long Wittenham

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