There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
WEEKEND
weekend
(noun) a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday
weekend
(verb) spend the weekend
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
weekend (plural weekends)
The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in western countries, Saturday and Sunday.
Usage notes
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, New Zealand) “at the weekend”, “on the weekend”, “this weekend”, “for the weekend”
• (US, Canada) “on the weekend”, “this weekend”, “for the weekend” (“at the weekend” is not used)
Verb
weekend (third-person singular simple present weekends, present participle weekending, simple past and past participle weekended)
To spend the weekend.
Adjective
weekend (not comparable)
Of, relating to or for the weekend.
Occurring at the weekend.
Source: Wiktionary
Week"-end", n.
Definition: The end of the week; specif., though loosely, the period observed commonly as a holiday, from Saturday noon or Friday night to Monday; as, to visit one for a week-end; also, a house party during a week-end.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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