weekends

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of weekend.

   The festival runs across three weekends in July.

   Many families reserve their weekends for rest and household chores.

   Note

   A regular plural formed with a plain -s, but the spelling does triple duty. The same word serves as the verb for spending the weekend (she weekends by the sea) and as the adverb meaning "at weekends". Before another noun, the singular takes over: weekend plans, a weekend cottage. That is because weekend itself also works as an adjective.

2. 2
   adverb

   On Saturdays and Sundays, especially as something that happens regularly each week rather than just once.

   He tends bar weekends to pay for college.

   The museum opens late weekends throughout the summer.

   Oppositeweekdays

   Note

   The plural noun pressed into service as an adverb, with no preposition needed: works weekends, closed weekends. It does the job of a phrase like "at weekends" in a single word. It cannot be graded, so nothing happens "more weekends". It usually sits at the end of the clause, after the verb and any object.

3. 3
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of weekend.

   The senator weekends in her home state to meet with constituents.

   Their daughter weekends with her grandparents during the school term.

   Note

   The noun turned into a verb meaning "to spend the weekend", and it rarely stands bare. It wants a place or company after it: weekends in the country, weekends at a friend's, weekends with family. The -s form goes only with a he, she or it subject. Everywhere else the base form serves (they weekend in Maine), and the past is the regular weekended.

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