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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.

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"Weekend" Quotes from Famous Books

... last minute I managed to get weekend leave and went to London. No Canadians there! I caught sight of a military picket, sergeant and twelve men, looking for stray ones, though. Another picket held me up and made me button my greatcoat. I did! It isn't clever to argue ...

— "Crumps", The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went • Louis Keene

... the delightful task of getting the first meal. That is always a pleasure, though it begins to pall upon the party before the weekend. Everybody wanted to have a hand in that first meal, and so Max fixed it that they could enjoy the privilege to ...

— The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island • Lawrence J. Leslie

... the greater part of his weekend holiday; hung, perforce, about him whenever he had any leisure. I suppose he found me tiresome—but one has to do these things. He talked, and I talked; heavens, how we talked! He was almost always deferential, I almost always dogmatic; perhaps because the ...

— The Inheritors • Joseph Conrad

... means "to save George" they flew into a panic. Lady St. Maur telegraphed a frantic appeal to Lady Porthcawl for information, but "dear Millicent" took thought, saw that she was already sufficiently committed, and caused her maid to reply that she had left Bournemouth for the weekend. ...

— Cynthia's Chauffeur • Louis Tracy

... bears him no resemblance, or at least was not intended for him, it never so much as conveys our thought to him: And where it is absent, as well as the person; though the mind may pass from the thought of the one to that of the other; it feels its idea to be rather weekend than inlivened by that transition. We take a pleasure in viewing the picture of a friend, when it is set before us; but when it is removed, rather choose to consider him directly, than by reflexion in an image, which is equally distinct ...

— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume

Words linked to "Weekend" : period, Saturday, Lord's Day, spend, weekend warrior, Sat, period of time, time period, Dominicus, sun, hebdomad, Sunday, week, pass, Sabbatum