Noun: weekday
| Singular | weekday |
| Plural | weekdays |
Sample Sentences
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The Nottingham to Skegness route and Robin Hood line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop will continue with their current weekday patterns; linked to the latter is EMR's commitment to carry out a feasibility study into operating Robin Hood trains to Ollerton. [2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58:]
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TfL reckons that London Overground attracts annual ridership of 185 million from a network of 113 stations and 1,600 weekday services, delivered with an ARL staff numbering 1,500. [2026 January 21, Philip Haigh, “First course of action: changes in the capital”, in RAIL, number 1053, page 22:]
Nouns inflected like weekday
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ (“weekday”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikadag, from Proto-Germanic *wikadagaz (“weekday”). By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Low German Wekendag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”), Faroese vikudagur (“weekday”), Icelandic vikudagur (“weekday”). See: Middle English Nouns '
wykeday', Middle English Nouns '
wykeday', Dutch Nouns '
weekdag', German Nouns '
Wochentag', Danish Nouns '
ugedag', Swedish Nouns '
veckodag', Faroese Nouns '
vikudagur', Icelandic Nouns '
vikudagur'.
Verbs referencing "weekday"
Danish Nouns
ugedag.