The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in western countries, Saturday and Sunday. Occasionally abbreviated to w/e
A weekend is Saturday and Sunday. She had agreed to have dinner with him in town the following weekend He told me to give you a call over the weekend. Saturday and Sunday, especially considered as time when you do not work. to spend the weekend somewhere
a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday
though loosely, the period observed commonly as a holiday, from Saturday noon or Friday night to Monday; as, to visit one for a week-end; also, a house party during a week-end