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{
"term": "weekend",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "Saturday and Sunday",
"sensetop": "at the weekendon the weekendon the weekend of…on a weekendover the weekend",
"labels": "(British English)(especially North American English)(British English, informal)",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "**this/next/last weekend**"
},
{
"text": "The office is closed at the weekend.",
"contextForm": "at the weekend"
},
{
"text": "The office is closed on the weekend.",
"contextForm": "on the weekend"
},
{
"text": "It happened on the weekend of 24 and 25 April.",
"contextForm": "on the weekend of…"
},
{
"text": "I like to go out on a weekend.",
"contextForm": "on a weekend"
},
{
"text": "Are you doing anything over the weekend?",
"contextForm": "over the weekend"
},
{
"text": "Have a good weekend!"
},
{
"text": "We go skiing most weekends in winter."
},
{
"text": "We **spent the weekend** at the beach."
},
{
"text": "Her birthday is **this coming weekend**."
},
{
"text": "There was a meeting in Brussels **this past weekend**."
},
{
"text": "Box office receipts for the film's **opening weekend** were disappointing."
},
{
"text": "She's away for the weekend."
},
{
"text": "He called me on the weekend."
},
{
"text": "I spent the last rainy weekend cleaning the kitchen."
},
{
"text": "It will be a wet weekend for much of England and Wales."
},
{
"text": "The children play there on a weekend."
},
{
"text": "The office is closed over the weekend."
},
{
"text": "We spent the weekend in Paris."
},
{
"text": "What are you doing at the weekend?"
},
{
"text": "What do you usually do at weekends?"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["long", "last", "next"],
"verb + weekend": ["spend", "have"],
"weekend + noun": ["break", "getaway", "trip"],
"preposition": ["at the weekend", "at weekends", "on a weekend"],
"phrases": ["a weekend away", "a weekend off"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "Saturday and Sunday, or a slightly longer period, as a holiday",
"labels": "(British English)",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He won a weekend for two in Rome."
},
{
"text": "Michael recently enjoyed a weekend in Dublin."
},
{
"text": "a weekend break"
},
{
"text": "a bank holiday weekend"
}
],
"topics": ["Time"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["long", "last", "next"],
"verb + weekend": ["spend", "have"],
"weekend + noun": ["break", "getaway", "trip"],
"preposition": ["at the weekend", "at weekends", "on a weekend"],
"phrases": ["a weekend away", "a weekend off"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌwiːkˈend/",
"audio": "we/weekend/weekend__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwiːkend/",
"audio": "we/weekend/weekend__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}