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Bookmark or Share- "At/on (the) weekend (s)" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange1. I would use 'on' because a weekend is two days (or more). 'At' is more particular, for a smaller place or shorter time, whereas on/in are used for longer durations or larger spaces. "Let's eat at an Italian restaurant at 9pm" against "Let's eat in downtown on Friday". Going by this logic, 'on' should be used.
- american english - On the weekend vs this weekend - English Language ...1. As has been pointed out several times on this site, Her Majesty and her subjects never do things "ON" the weekend. They do things "on" Saturday, and "on" Sunday, but NEVER "on" the weekend. They do things AT the weekend and OVER the weekend (seldom "during" the weekend). – WS2.
- using phrase "weekend of" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeA week begins on a Monday and ends on a Sunday. That is why Sat and Sun are collectively known as the "weekEND". So, for a week beginning on the 24th of a month: (1) 24th would be a Monday. The 29th and the 30th would be the "weekend". (2) The dates from 24 through 30 comprise the "week of the 24th".
- at the weekend, on the weekend or in the weekend? [closed]I will do my work over the weekend. I will do my work during the weekend. Neither "in the weekend" nor "at the weekend" sound correct. "On the weekend" sounds OK, more so if you're talking about multiple weekends. I do my work on weekends.
- "On/at/for/over the weekend" in American EnglishOn is slightly vague (possibly deliberately so) and would suggest some time during the weekend, or possibly the whole weekend. For the weekend could mean most of the weekend and possibly the entire weekend, and over the weekend explicitly means the whole weekend — in this context. As @JeffSahol points out, in other contexts (e.g., I'll fix ...
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