WEEKDAY

weekday

(noun) any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

weekday (plural weekdays)

A day of the week except those which form the weekend; that is

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)

(Judaism) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.

(Persian) Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.

(now, rare) Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday).

Synonyms

• workday

• working day

• (day on which work is done in legal and official usage): business day

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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