Definitions
Saturday and Sunday, or the end of the working week.
Word origin
From week + end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century. Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”).
Used in a sentence
““They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another.”
“[…] often took a few boys down there for what we North Country folk call the week-end — Saturday and Sunday; it was also used as a sanatorium if required.”
“I love a phrase of Dizzy's in one of his later letters to Lady Bradford, whom he reproaches for her addiction to what we now call week-end visits to country houses: “the monotony of organized platitude.””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Days off for many”7 letters
02“Saturday and Sunday”7 letters
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