weekendとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From week +‎ end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century.^[1][2] Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /wiːˈkɛnd/, /ˈwiːˌkɛnd/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwiˌkɛnd/
• (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈwiːˌkend/
• 韻: -ɛnd, -iːkɛnd, -ikɛnd, -iːkend
• Homophone: weakened (some accents)

名詞

weekend (複数形 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.
   • 1874 July–December, W. Senior, “With the Herring Fleet”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 704:

     “They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another.

   • 1903, Francis Markham; Sir Clements Robert Markham, Recollections of a town boy at Westminster, 1849–1855, page 34:

     […] often took a few boys down there for what we North Country folk call the week-end — Saturday and Sunday; it was also used as a sanatorium if required.

   • 1921 June 21, The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, K.G., chapter XX, in Memories and Reflections 1852–1927, volume 2, Cassell and Company, published 1928, OCLC 499252263, page 197:

     I love a phrase of Dizzy's in one of his later letters to Lady Bradford, whom he reproaches for her addiction to what we now call week-end visits to country houses: “the monotony of organized platitude.”

使用する際の注意点

Historically in North America and parts of Europe, people would often work on Saturday as well, or at least until noon on Saturday. Thus the “weekend” might begin at noon or later on Saturday in older texts.

To describe the soonest upcoming weekend:

• (UK, Australia, New Zealand) “at the weekend”, “on the weekend”, “this weekend”, “for the weekend”
  • 1886, New Zealand Parliament, “Parliamentary debates”, in (Please provide the book title または journal name), volume 324, page 2371:

    Let them work at their ordinary jobs during the week, and then take them out of circulation at the weekend, which is usually the time when the trouble is ...

  • 2009, Great Britain House of Commons: Business and Enterprise Committee, “Pre-appointment Hearing with the Chairman-elect of Ofcom, Dr. Colette Bowe”, in (Please provide the book title または journal name), page 16:

    Whether it is on the BBC, ITV or commercial radio does not really matter. ...can give you a radio example of two things I was listening to at the weekend.

• (US, Canada) “on the weekend”, “this weekend”, “for the weekend” (“at the weekend” is not used)
  • 2002, United States Senate: Committee on Armed Services, Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 2002, page 722:

    I am going to Moscow on the weekend to participate in the discussion, ...

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Arabic: ويكند‎
• → Czech: víkend
• → French: weekend
• → German: Wochenende (calque)
• → Hungarian: víkend
• → Italian: weekend
• → Polish: weekend
• → Russian: уик-энд (uik-end)
• → Serbo-Croatian: vìkend
• → Slovak: víkend
• → Macedonian: викенд
• → Swedish: weekend

動詞

weekend (三人称単数 現在形 weekends, 現在分詞 weekending, 過去形および過去分詞形 weekended)

1. To spend the weekend.

   We'll weekend at the beach.

形容詞

weekend (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to or for the weekend.

   I'm wearing my weekend shoes.

2. Occurring at the weekend.

   a weekend break

Further reading

• weekend on Wikipedia.

参照

使用する際の注意点

Since the 1950s weekend is the dominant form.^[1]

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