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Bookmark or Share- This weekend vs Next weekend [duplicate] - English Language & Usage ...Following this definition, "next weekend" will always mean the weekend with the start date in closes proximity in time. If the phrase is used during a weekend, of course, you'd be referring to the weekend following the one you are currently experiencing. However, the issue gets more complicated if you look to other definitions.
- "At/on (the) weekend (s)" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeWhereas "at 9 o'clock" implies starting at 9, but continuing for an flexible length of time; similarly "at Christmas" implies starting at some point during the Christmas period, not necessarily "on Christmas Day"; "at the weekend" implies some point during the weekend which could either be Saturday or Sunday or both.
- by the end of the week vs. by the weekend - WordReference ForumsSaying 'by the weekend' takes me to any point in the period of time saturday-sunday (probably from friday afternoon) because I'm a student. As a student my week is made up of 5 days, from monday to friday, so the end of the week for me is friday, when my last class at school actually finishes.
- using phrase "weekend of" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeSo technically part of a weekend starts at the beginning and another weekend starts at the end of the week. So when someone says, for example, the weekend of the 24th (the 24th being a Monday) they are not using good grammar or reference. The 24th doesn’t fall on a weekend day ... therefor there is NO “weekend of the 24th.
- Weekend or week-end: hyphen or not? | WordReference ForumsThe adjectival or attributive version is generally weekend - weekend bag, weekend sailor. "Something for the weekend," is always so There are no examples of week-end, or weekend being used to mean the end of the week. Edit: Correction, there is one example for definition 1.c "The end (i.e. the last day) of the week; Saturday. dial."
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