weekending
SayWEEK-end-ingUS/ˈwiˌkɛndɪŋ/AUS/ˈwiːˌkendɪŋ/UKweek-END-ing/wiːˈkɛndɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of weekend.
The couple are weekending at a country inn to celebrate their anniversary.
Weekending in the city has become a popular habit among young professionals.
Note
A noun turned verb, then put to work as an -ing form: weekend names the break, the verb means to spend it, and weekending does both jobs of a participle. After be it is progressive (they are weekending in the hills). As a subject or object it is a gerund (weekending suits them). Because the verb means spending the break somewhere, it reads most naturally with a phrase saying where.
weekending is a form of weekend
weekend, verb: To spend the rest period at the end of the working week somewhere. Full entry
- Spelling
- weekend → weekending: add -ing
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