weekday

noun

week·​day ˈwēk-ˌdā How to pronounce weekday (audio)
: any day of the week except Sunday or now usually except Saturday and Sunday

Examples of weekday in a Sentence

The library is open on weekdays from 9:00 to 5:00.
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Forbes Daily: Join over 1 million Forbes Daily subscribers and get our best stories, exclusive reporting and essential analysis of the day’s news in your inbox every weekday. — Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 On a recent weekday morning, workers were getting coffee at the Wawa on Amelia Earhart Boulevard, while, overhead, an F-16C from the New Jersey Air National Guard took off seaward. — Robert Sullivan, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025 Those prices currently apply to some weekdays in September, with the most expensive single-day tickets priced at $199 and $194 for children, plus tax, during the late December holiday season. — Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025 Listen every weekday morning, all in about 10 minutes. — Tracy Mumford, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for weekday

Word History

First Known Use

1534, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of weekday was in 1534

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weekday

noun
week·​day ˈwēk-ˌdā How to pronounce weekday (audio)
: a day of the week except Sunday or except Saturday and Sunday

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