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weekday

week·day

UK/ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/ US/ˈwɪi̯kdeɪ̯/ rare archaic
noun (1) adjective (1)

noun

1.

any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday)

adjective

1.

occurring every day of the week except Sunday (and sometimes Saturday)

  • “his weekday commute”
  • “a weekday newspaper”

Origin

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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