weekday

From Middle English weke-day, wykday, wok day, woke day, wockeday, wouke day, wukedaȝȝ, equivalent to week +‎ day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”).

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weekday (plural weekdays)

1. A day of the week except those which form the weekend; that is:
   1. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
   2. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)
   3. (Judaism) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.
   4. (Persian) Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.

• workday
• working day
• (day on which work is done in legal and official usage): business day

• week
• weeknight

• American Heritage Dictionary
• “weekday” in the Collins English Dictionary, Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers.
• “weekday” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.