Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - weekend

~1 n 1 Saturday and Sunday (and sometimes also Friday evening), especially when considered as time when you do not work  (Are you doing anything nice this weekend? | a long weekend (=Saturday and Sunday, and also Friday or Monday, or both))  (We're going for a long weekend to EuroDisney. | at the weekend/at weekends BrE)  (I never work at weekends. | on the weekend/on weekends AmE)  (What are you doing on the weekend? | weekend cottage/cabin etc (=a place in the country where you spend your weekends)) 2 a holiday from Friday evening until Sunday evening  (You've won a weekend for two in Paris!)  (- see also dirty weekend dirty1 (2)) ~2 v to spend the weekend somewhere  (We're weekending on the coast.)