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weekday.

Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/[ˈwɪi̯kdeɪ̯]/ˈwiːkdæ̝ɪ̯/Australia[ˈwɪi̯kdæ̝ɪ̯]Australia

  1. Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.

  2. Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is: Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.

  3. Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)

  4. Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.

    Judaism

  5. Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday).

    archaic
Where this word comes from

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”).

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