weekday

/ˌwikˈdeɪ/

/ˈwikdeɪ/

Other forms: weekdays

If it's not Saturday or Sunday, today is a weekday. Better get to bed early tonight — tomorrow's another weekday and you've got school!

You can categorize every day of the week as either a weekday or the weekend. Monday through Friday are weekdays, which for most people means work or school. The word weekday can also be used as an adjective, to describe something that happens on one of these days, like your weekday routine or the weekday traffic on your commute. This word stems from the Old English wicudæge, and it originally meant "any day but Sunday."

Definitions of weekday

1. noun

   any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday)
   types:

   work day, workday, working day

   a day on which work is done

   feria

   a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated

   Mon, Monday

   the second day of the week; the first working day

   Tues, Tuesday

   the third day of the week; the second working day

   Midweek, Wed, Wednesday

   the fourth day of the week; the third working day

   Th, Thursday

   the fifth day of the week; the fourth working day

   Fri, Friday

   the sixth day of the week; the fifth working day

   Sabbatum, Sat, Saturday

   the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians

   Whitmonday, Whitsun Monday

   the day after Whitsunday; a legal holiday in England and Wales and Ireland

   Whit-Tuesday, Whitsun Tuesday

   the day after Whitmonday

   type of:

   day of the week

   any one of the seven days in a week