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w/e

w/e is the initialism of week ending.

w/e is the abbreviation of weekend.

w/e is the abbreviation of whatever.

w/e is the abbreviation of whenever.

Meaning of weekend

Noun

weekend (plural weekends)

  1. The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday.
    • “They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another.1874 July–December, W. Senior, “With the Herring Fleet”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 704

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Meaning of whatever

Interjection

  1. (colloquial) A holophrastic expression used to dismiss something that the speaker doesn't care about, doesn't think important, or doesn't want to consider or discuss any further. Sometimes conceived as an ellipsis of whatever you say, implying feigned deference: whatever you say [apparently must be true].
    • Near-synonyms: meh, so what

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Forms of w/e

pluralw/es

Questions about w/e

What is w/e the initialism of?
W/e is the initialism of week ending.

Words near w/e in the dictionary

  1. w.r.t.
  2. W.Va.
  3. w/
  4. w/c
  5. w/d
  6. w/e
  7. w/es
  8. w/h
  9. w/i
  10. w/in
  11. w/o

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Adapted from Wiktionary: w/e (page history and authors); weekend (page history and authors); whatever (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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