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weekend
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + weekend
this weekend
• Are you going sailing this weekend?
next weekend
• I'm going to Palm Springs next weekend.
last weekend
• We were in Glasgow last weekend.
the previous weekend
• The talks had been scheduled for the previous weekend.
the following weekend
• The intention was to complete the work the following weekend.
a long weekend
(= Saturday, Sunday, and also Friday or Monday or both )
• In August we had a long weekend in the Lake District.
a holiday weekend
(= a weekend that has days before or after it which are holidays )
• The roads were jammed on the Friday before the holiday weekend.
weekend + NOUN
a weekend cottage
British English (= a house you have in the country, where you spend your weekends )
• A friend of mine has a weekend cottage on the South Coast, and we often go down there in summer.
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noun
Saturday-Sunday:
We go home on weekends.
Simple Definitions
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noun ADJ. long I took Friday off, and spent a long weekend visiting friends. | wet It will be a wet weekend for much of England and Wales. VERB + WEEKEND spend WEEKEND + NOUN break, trip, visit | home, retreat PREP. at the ~ What are you doing at the weekend? | at ~s What do you usually do at weekends? | over the ~ The office is closed over the weekend. PHRASES a weekend away/off
Oxford Collocations Dictionary