weekender
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈwiːˌkɛndər/
:
vacacionista
- I could keep it as a pied-à-terre, a weekender, holiday house, you know.
- tourists and weekenders
Examples
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On average, weekday visitors were staying only fifty-one minutes and weekenders only seventy-one minutes (Superintendent's monthly report 1960).
Academic text (1994) -
Moreover, assessments of air quality risk in rural areas often do not consider that these areas attract large numbers of tourists and summer weekenders who reside in urban areas.
Academic text (1998) -
Tomorrow, when we go up to my weekender, I'll show you the Reserve Bank.
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Like most weekenders, I know if you wanna play in the party, you have to raise the capital.
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Well, this distance is for weekenders, tourists...
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The final item that came in quite handy was the Skooba Laptop/Tablet Weekender.
Blog text (5) -
It was Monday, so the weekenders were gone, thank God, and it was, as I said, after Labor Day when most of the summer rentals terminate, and you could feel the solitude returning again.
Fiction book (1998) -
The weekenders, most of whose homes were hidden up on East Hill (and who were not counted as part of the official population), were still asleep, but my father, also a weekender, was already inside the store running his hands over a side of beef and showing Bob Orman, the new proprietor, how to get the best steaks and chops.
Fiction book (2000) -
Many weekenders travel to the mountains to enjoy nature and relax.
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Each summer, we host a barbecue for all the weekenders staying in our neighborhood.
Synonyms
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2.0
A person who spends time away from home to relax or have fun
4
4.8
A person who makes a short trip for pleasure to see sights
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2.7
A person who goes away from home for fun
A person who travels to rest and enjoy free time
Antonyms
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word weekender comes from weekend ('end of the week') plus the ending -er meaning 'someone who does something'. So a weekender is a person who spends the weekend away from home or goes on short trips at the weekend.