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# weekend

«weekend» in Mova's school dictionary: **Saturday and Sunday, the days at the end of the week when…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a weekend, weekends)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The weekend is Saturday and Sunday, the days at the end of the week when most children do not go to school and many adults do not work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weekend/#m1)

2) A weekend can be a short holiday or trip over those days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weekend/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is time for sport, family, shopping and rest. In maths problems, a weekend has 2 days, so a week has 5 weekdays and 2 weekend days. Phrases: «at the weekend» (UK), «on the weekend» (USA, Australia), «over the weekend», «last weekend», «next weekend», «long weekend» (with a holiday Monday or Friday), «weekend away».

### examples

- What did you do at the weekend? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weekend/#x1)
- On the weekend we went to the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weekend/#x2)
- We have football practice every weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weekend/#x3)
- It's a long weekend, so there's no school on Monday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weekend/#x4)
- I finished my book over the weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weekend/#x5)
- Grandpa visits us every other weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weekend/#x6)
- There are 2 weekend days and 5 school days in a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weekend/#x7)
- We went camping for the weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weekend/#x8)

### note

One word. British English says «at the weekend»; American and Australian English say «on the weekend»; both are correct. Weekend days: Saturday, Sunday; weekdays: Monday to Friday. In a maths problem, «every weekend for 4 weeks» means 4 × 2 = 8 days.

### In the corpora

- [When a chatbot describes its weekend or its picnic, it is making up a story, because it has no weekends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/12/)
- ["zhōumò" means the weekend; "zhōumò kuàilè" (happy weekend) is a common Friday goodbye.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/8/)
- ["Weekend dad" means a divorced father who sees his children only at weekends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/5/)
- [Keeping weekend and holiday bedtimes close to normal makes going back to school easier.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/264-routines-screens-and-earning/6/)
- [Mia keeps long games for Friday and Saturday nights and says weekend games are more fun when you have waited for them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/418-sleep-and-school-mornings/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «weekend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weekend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.