for the weekend
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1.0
- idiom
:
el fin de semana
- If your team loses, we go up to the mountains for the weekend.
- home for the weekend
- stay for the weekend
- get away for the weekend
It closes also for the weekend, also for Christmas.
- It closes also for the weekend, also for Christmas.
- Yes, I have been alone for the weekend.
- And the White House would move to our house for the weekend.
- And, and the pattern was that my roommate would always go home for the weekend.
- And so we were sitting on this huge rock in Maine and where we'd gone for the weekend, it was freezing cold.
- And do you really own that Bugatti or did you just rent it for the weekend?
- Me and a girlfriend who I work work with currently, we're going away for the weekend with her, me and her daughter.
- Like for example, if my mother and father went away for the weekend, you know, my anxiety is through the roof.
- So I feel like it would be kind of difficult to, like, take the cats to a hotel with us for the weekend.
Examples
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- We're going away for the weekend.
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Alyssa's coming down for the weekend, so I want to hang out with her.
Fiction book (1997) -
- But you did pack for the weekend, right?
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I was hoping to get him home for the weekend.
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You have any big plans for the weekend?
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My father told my mother he was going out of town for the weekend on business.
Fiction book (1994) -
But my daughter is visiting for the weekend, and she forgot her books.
Fiction book (1997) -
Bryan had driven down from Boston for the weekend to look at reception halls with me.
Fiction book (1998) -
For many migrant workers from Poland, it is even possible to go home for the weekend.
Academic text (2001) -
We're going away for the weekend to relax and unwind.
Antonyms
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'for' expresses duration/purpose and 'weekend' names the time period, with 'the' as a determiner, so the phrase straightforwardly means 'during the weekend'. This preposition + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English usage, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand it.
Etymology
For the weekend makes you imagine someone packing a small bag for a two-day trip and staying only from Friday evening to Sunday night. That's why it means doing or staying somewhere 'during the weekend' or just for those few days.