WEEKDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weekday mean? 

• WEEKDAY (noun)
  The noun WEEKDAY has 1 sense:

1. any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday)

  Familiarity information: WEEKDAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEEKDAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("weekday" is a kind of...):

day of the week (any one of the seven days in a week)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weekday"):

work day; workday; working day (a day on which work is done)

feria (a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated)

Mon; Monday (the second day of the week; the first working day)

Tues; Tuesday (the third day of the week; the second working day)

Midweek; Wed; Wednesday (the fourth day of the week; the third working day)

Th; Thursday (the fifth day of the week; the fourth working day)

Fri; Friday (the sixth day of the week; the fifth working day)

Sabbatum; Sat; Saturday (the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians)

 Context examples 

The authors conclude that increasing the mean weekday sleep duration (10.5 hours) by half an hour could be associated with a 0.1 kg/m² lower body mass index and a 0.5 percent reduction in insulin resistance.

(An Hour Less Sleep Ups Diabetes Risk, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving trade on the weekdays.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)