weekday
part of speech
noun (a weekday, weekdays); adjective (a weekday morning)
meaning for a pupil
1) Any day of the week except Saturday and Sunday: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. tree →
2) (adjective) Happening on those days: a weekday timetable. tree →
3) (weekdays, adverb) On weekdays, most weekdays: the shop opens at nine weekdays (mostly US). tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life most children go to school on weekdays and have the weekend off; timetables, bus times and shop hours often differ on weekdays. In maths there are 5 weekdays in a week, so problems ask how many weekdays are in two weeks (10) or how much is spent each weekday. Phrases: on weekdays, every weekday, weekday mornings.
examples
- I go to school on weekdays. tree →
- The bus comes every 15 minutes on weekdays. tree →
- On weekday mornings we eat breakfast quickly. tree →
- There are 5 weekdays in a week and 2 weekend days. tree →
- If I read 20 pages each weekday, I read 100 pages in a week. tree →
- The pool is quieter on a weekday. tree →
- (US) The library is open 9 to 5 weekdays. tree →
note
Countable: a weekday, weekdays. Opposite: the weekend (Saturday and Sunday). Maths trap: "each day" is 7 days a week but "each weekday" is only 5. In some countries the working week is different, but in English-speaking countries weekdays are Monday to Friday.
In the corpora
- How much money a family has, why someone is at home on a weekday, and who visits whom are private.
- "Mon–Fri" means Monday to Friday, the 5 weekdays; Saturday and Sunday are not included.
- Many weekday names come from the sky: Sunday from the Sun, Monday from the Moon, Saturday from the planet Saturn.
- Weekdays are Monday to Friday; in Britain, the USA and most countries the weekend is Saturday and Sunday.
- Dates that are 7 apart fall on the same weekday.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «weekday» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.