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WEEKDAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("weekday" is a kind of...):
day of the week (any one of the seven days in a week)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weekday"):
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)