weekendとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From week +‎ end. Compare 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/
• Homophone: weakened

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.
   • 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 weekend — Saturday and Sunday; it was also used as a sanatorium if required.

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:

• (Britain, 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, ...

関連する語

• weekender
• dirty weekend
• weekday
• weekend warrior
• long weekend

派生した語

• → Arabic: ويكند‎
• → Czech: víkend
• → French: weekend
• → Italian: weekend
• → Polish: weekend
• → Russian: уик-энд (uik-end)
• → Serbo-Croatian: vìkend
• → Slovak: víkend

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.