Other forms: weekdays
A weekday is any day from Monday to Friday. The working days, as opposed to the weekend.
The word matters in timetables and opening hours, and weekday services, weekday rates and weekday parking all mean the same five days. It works as an adverb with an s, so weekdays means on those days generally. The line is about work rather than the calendar, which is why the definition holds even for people who work Saturdays. Its opposite is the weekend, and a bank holiday falls awkwardly between the two.
1nounweekdayAny day of the week other than Saturday or Sunday.
“The museum is quieter on a weekday.”
Proto-Germanic
*wikadagaz — weekday
Proto-West Germanic
*wikadag
Old English
wicdæġ — weekday
Middle English
wykeday
English, today
weekday
Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ (“weekday”), from Proto-West Germanic wikadag, from Proto-Germanic wikadagaz (“weekday”). by surface analysis, en + 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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA