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week-day

week-day is the archaic form of weekday.

Meaning of weekday

Noun

weekday (plural weekdays)

  1. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
    • The Nottingham to Skegness route and Robin Hood line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop will continue with their current weekday patterns; linked to the latter is EMR's commitment to carry out a feasibility study into operating Robin Hood trains to Ollerton.2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58
  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).
    Synonyms:
    business day

Forms of week-day

pluralweek-days

Questions about week-day

What is week-day the archaic form of?
Week-day is the archaic form of weekday.

Words near week-day in the dictionary

  1. week
  2. week in and week out
  3. week in, week out
  4. week of Saturdays
  5. week of Sundays
  6. week-day
  7. week-days
  8. week-end
  9. week-ends
  10. week-long
  11. Weekapaug

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Adapted from Wiktionary: week-day (page history and authors); weekday (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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