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weekday en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• [ˈwɪi̯kdæ̝ɪ̯] (Australia)
• [ˈwɪi̯kdeɪ̯]
• /ˈwiːkdæ̝ɪ̯/ (Australia)
• /ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ (“weekday”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikadag, from Proto-Germanic *wikadagaz (“weekday”). By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Low German Wekendag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”), Faroese vikudagur (“weekday”), Icelandic vikudagur (“weekday”).

Meanings

1. Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is: ▸ Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
   • TfL reckons that London Overground attracts annual ridership of 185 million from a network of 113 stations and 1,600 weekday services, delivered with an ARL staff numbering 1,500. 2026 January 21, Philip Haigh, “First course of action: changes in the capital”, in RAIL, number 1053, page 22:
   • The Nottingham to Skegness route and Robin Hood line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop will continue with their current weekday patterns; linked to the latter is EMR's commitment to carry out a feasibility study into operating Robin Hood trains to Ollerton. 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58:
2. Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is: ▸ Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.
3. Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is: ▸ Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)
4. (Judaism) Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is: ▸ Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.
5. (archaic) Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday).

Forms

Deriveds

weekdayish · weekdaily

Relateds

week · weeknight

Synonyms

business day (day on which work is done in legal and official usage) · workday · working day

Translations (93)

uz begim kuni (day of the week, excluding weekends) · fr jour ouvré (day of the week, excluding weekends) · nl weekdag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ja 平日 (day of the week, excluding weekends) · fa-ira روزِ کاری (day of the week, excluding weekends) · vi ngày thường (day of the week, excluding weekends) · uz oddiy kun (day of the week, excluding weekends) · pdt Woakjeldach (day of the week, excluding weekends) · el καθημερινή (day of the week, excluding weekends) · de Arbeitstag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · sv arbetsdag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ru рабо́чий день (day of the week, excluding weekends) · bg де́лничен ден (day of the week, excluding weekends) · nb virkedag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · pl dzień roboczy (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ru бу́дний день (day of the week, excluding weekends) · da almindelig ugedag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · hu hétköznap (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ro zi lucrătoare (day of the week, excluding weekends) · cmn 平日 (day of the week, excluding weekends) · nb hverdag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · haw lā noa (day of the week, excluding weekends) · da hverdag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · sk všedný deň (day of the week, excluding weekends) · uz ish kuni (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ks وار (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ang wicdæġ (day of the week, excluding weekends) · nn kvardag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · mk делник (day of the week, excluding weekends) · uk бу́день (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ar يَوْم عَمَل (day of the week, excluding weekends) · nn vyrkedag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · cs pracovní den (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ga lá den tseachtain (day of the week, excluding weekends) · th วันทำงาน (day of the week, excluding weekends) · la feria (day of the week, excluding weekends) · cy dydd o'r wythnos (day of the week, excluding weekends) · es día de entre semana (day of the week, excluding weekends) · lt darbo diena (day of the week, excluding weekends) · gl día solto (day of the week, excluding weekends) · da arbejdsdag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · eo semajntago (day of the week, excluding weekends) · tg рӯзи кор (day of the week, excluding weekends) · hy աշխատանքային օր (day of the week, excluding weekends) · de Wochentag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · myv такойчи (day of the week, excluding weekends) · pt dia de semana (day of the week, excluding weekends) · es día de entresemana (day of the week, excluding weekends) · tr hafta arası (day of the week, excluding weekends) · oj anokii-giizhigad (day of the week, excluding weekends) · lb Wochendag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · fr jour de la semaine (day of the week, excluding weekends) · nl werkdag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ca dia feiner (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ru бу́дни (day of the week, excluding weekends) · uk бу́дній день (day of the week, excluding weekends) · fi arkipäivä (day of the week, excluding weekends) · it giorno feriale (day of the week, excluding weekends) · hi कार्यदिवस (day of the week, excluding weekends) · eu astegun (day of the week, excluding weekends) · lv darba dienā (day of the week, excluding weekends) · is vikudagur (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ja ウィークデー (day of the week, excluding weekends) · izh arkipäivä (day of the week, excluding weekends) · alt иштеер кӱн (day of the week, excluding weekends) · he יום חול (day of the week, excluding weekends) · es día de diario (day of the week, excluding weekends) · sl delavnik (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ro zi a săptămânii (day of the week, excluding weekends) · de Werktag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ko 주중 (day of the week, excluding weekends) · nn yrkedag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · id hari biasa (day of the week, excluding weekends) · uk робо́чий день (day of the week, excluding weekends) · sv vardag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · cmn 平常日 (day of the week, excluding weekends) · hu munkanap (day of the week, excluding weekends) · nb arbeidsdag (day of the week, excluding weekends) · tr hafta içi (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ja 週日 (day of the week, excluding weekends) · es dia laborable (day of the week, excluding weekends) · sk robotný deň (day of the week, excluding weekends) · cs všední den (day of the week, excluding weekends) · be бу́дні дзень (day of the week, excluding weekends) · se árga (day of the week, excluding weekends) · pl dzień powszedni (day of the week, excluding weekends) · he יוֹם חֹל (day of the week, excluding weekends) · hi वार (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ko 평일 (day of the week, excluding weekends) · eo labortago (day of the week, excluding weekends) · ca dia laborable (day of the week, excluding weekends) · be працо́ўны дзень (day of the week, excluding weekends) · et nädalapäev (day of the week, excluding weekends)