Other forms: weekends
The weekend is Saturday and Sunday, when most schools and offices are closed. At the weekend, this weekend, a long weekend with a Monday attached.
The preposition splits by country and is worth knowing: British English says at the weekend, American English says on the weekend. Both are standard at home and neither will confuse anybody. Note that weekend is one word with no hyphen in modern usage, and that the verb exists — they weekended in Norfolk — but sounds dated and slightly grand. A working weekend is one you do not get; a weekend away is one you do.
1nounweekendSaturday and Sunday.
“We are away for the weekend.”
synonyms: Saturday and Sunday
2adjectivehappeningHappening on a Saturday or Sunday.
“There is a weekend service every hour.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
weekend is a period of days.
From week + end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare stq Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA