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weekends

weekends is the plural of weekend.

weekends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of weekend.

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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Adverb

weekends (not comparable)

  1. At weekends.

Phrases with weekends

Questions about weekends

What does weekends mean?
Weekends means at weekends.
What is weekends the plural of?
Weekends is the plural of weekend.
What part of speech is weekends?
Weekends is an adverb.

Words near weekends in the dictionary

  1. weekendful
  2. weekendfuls
  3. weekending
  4. weekendish
  5. weekendly
  6. weekends
  7. weekendwear
  8. weekendy
  9. weeker
  10. weekers
  11. weekes

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