weekday
Syllables: week·day/ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/
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Australia/ˈwiːkdæ̝ɪ̯/
weekday noun: monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
Noun
weekday (plural weekdays)
- 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
- TfL reckons that London Overground attracts annual ridership of 185 million from a network of 113 stations and 1,600 weekday services, delivered with an ARL staff numbering 1,500.2026 January 21, Philip Haigh, “First course of action: changes in the capital”, in RAIL, number 1053, page 22
- Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)
- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.
- Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday).
- Synonyms:
- business day
weekday meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Arabic
weekday in Hindi
- day of the week, excluding weekends
- वार vār, कार्यदिवस kāryadivas
weekday in Urdu
- ہفتہ وار دن
weekday in Malayalam
- ആഴ്ചാദിനം
weekday in Arabic
- day of the week, excluding weekends
- يَوْم عَمَل yawm ʕamal
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- weekday in Indonesian
- hari biasa
- weekday in Thai
- วันทำงาน wan-tam-ngaan
- weekday in Vietnamese
- ngày thường
- Kashmiri
- وار vār
Examples of weekday in a sentence
- The paper boy delivers her newspaper to her front porch every weekday.
- We offer Saturday classes for non-trads and anyone whose work schedule overlaps with our weekday classes.
- The poodles have regular playdates on weekday mornings.
Synonyms of weekday
Forms of weekday
| plural | weekdays |
|---|---|
| alternative form (archaic) | week-day |
Origin of weekday
Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ (“weekday”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikadag, from Proto-Germanic *wikadagaz (“weekday”). By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Low German Wekendag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”), Faroese vikudagur (“weekday”), Icelandic vikudagur (“weekday”).
Words formed from weekday
Questions about weekday
- What does weekday mean?
- Weekday means monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
- What is weekday in Hindi?
- Weekday in Hindi is वार (vār), कार्यदिवस (kāryadivas). See Weekday meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is weekday?
- Weekday is a noun.
- How do you pronounce weekday?
- Weekday is pronounced /ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/.
- What is the plural of weekday?
- The plural of weekday is weekdays.
Words near weekday in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: weekday (page history and authors); weekday (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); weekday (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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