weekday

noun

week·​day ˈwēk-ˌdā 

: any day of the week except Sunday or now usually except Saturday and Sunday

Examples of weekday in a Sentence

The library is open on weekdays from 9:00 to 5:00.

Recent Examples on the Web

If our years were always exactly 365 days, then the distribution of weekdays would repeat every seven years. —Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026

For daily updates, subscribe to Fortune’s weekday newsletters, including CEO Daily, CFO Daily, and MPW Daily, as well as Next to Lead (weekly Mondays), and CIO Intelligence (weekly Wednesdays). —Fortune Editors, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026

Get Morning Squawk directly in your inbox CNBC’s Morning Squawk recaps the biggest stories investors should know before the stock market opens, every weekday morning. —Josephine Rozzelle, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2026

This is Morning Rundown, a weekday newsletter to start your day. —Marissa Martinez, NBC news, 13 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1534, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for weekday

• airway
• allay
• archway
• array
• ashtray
• astray
• aue
• away
• ballet
• belay
• beltway
• beret

Kids Definition

weekday

noun

week·​day ˈwēk-ˌdā 

: a day of the week except Sunday or except Saturday and Sunday