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(n)
(chiefly UK, Australia) A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural.
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An extended period of leisure time away from work or school.
Dated spelling of weekend.
(adv)
(US, Canada) On Saturday; each Saturday.
authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
Any period of seven consecutive days.
Level of saturation (especially of oxygen in the blood).
A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
The terminal point of something in space or time.
The star that is closest to the Earth.
(Chinese contexts) Synonym of congee, a thick rice porridge.
(stock ticker symbol) Abbreviation of Sony. [(trademark) An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.]
Free time, time free from work or duties.
A period of time when work or other activity is less intense or stops.
Alternative spelling of time off. [(idiomatic, business, human resources) A period of time where one is not required to work.]
A brief interval of rest or relief.
(tennis) In a tiebreak, a point won against the server when ahead.
Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship.
(informal) A vacation spent at or close to home.
(countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
A period of unpaid time off, used by an employer to reduce costs.
(informal) A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.
The day of the Sabbath; Saturday, the seventh day of the week.
Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
The Jewish Sabbath, from sundown Friday to nightfall Saturday, commemorating God's rest on the seventh day in the book of Genesis.
(Christianity, Quakerism) Saturday (the seventh day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week).
Abbreviation of Sabbath. [Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship.]
Short form of Sabbath day
Sunday, the first day of the week, particularly as the Christian Sabbath.
(Judaism) Shabbat or shabbat (the biblical seventh-day Sabbath).
Alternative spelling of shabbos. [(Judaism) Shabbat or shabbat (the biblical seventh-day Sabbath).]
(dated, Christianity, derogatory) The tendency to treat the Sabbath as a day off rather than a solemn religious occasion.
The Saturday immediately after Good Friday and before Easter.
The week preceding Easter; each of its days is a holy day.
The week after Holy Week, starting on Easter Sunday, containing Easter Monday, and going on through to Easter Saturday.
an instance of breaking the Sabbath
(Christianity, Quakerism) Friday (the sixth day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week).
(dated, Christianity) The tendency to treat the Sabbath as a solemn religious occasion rather than merely as a day off.
(Christianity, Judaism) Work that is sufficiently important to be done on the Sabbath, despite the usual prohibitions against working on that day.
(idiomatic) A particularly noteworthy day; the day on which a milestone or especially memorable event occurs.
(Wicca) Any of the eight major holy days celebrated in Wicca.
Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
A person who keeps Sunday as a day of rest, but does not regard it as representing the Sabbath of the Old Testament of the Bible.
(Christianity) The day of preparation before the (Jewish) Sabbath; Friday.
The day before Whit Sunday.
The middle of the week.
(Christianity, UK, obsolete) Synonym of Palm Sunday.
(Judaism) A shabbat-long or weekend-long educational gathering.
(Christianity, Quakerism) Sunday (the first day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week).
Easter Sunday, the Christian holiday commemorating the Resurrection.
Synonym of Sabbath-keeping.
(agriculture) The period, occurring every seventh year, when fields were traditionally left fallow.
(Christianity) The Monday that immediately follows Pentecost; the second day of Whitsuntide.
A Sunday set apart for the collection of money to benefit hospitals.
(religion) A regular day of religious observance, a sabbath.
(Christianity) The Saturday before Ash Wednesday. At the University of Oxford, the pace eggs are provided for the students on that day.
(religion) A holy day, or religious festival.
(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
A supposed meeting of witches at midnight to practice sorcery or to take part in a demonic orgy.
(Christianity) The week beginning on Passion Sunday.
(Christianity, Quakerism) Monday (the second day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week).
(Christianity) The period between Ascension Day and Whitsunday, during which the apostles continued praying in expectation of Christ.
(religion) A religious festival for a particular saint or religious event.
(Christianity) A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.
(Christianity, Quakerism) Tuesday (the third day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week).
(Christianity) Synonym of Palm Sunday: the Sunday before Easter.
A day in a liturgical calendar that is observed in honour of a saint; not necessarily a holiday.
A Protestant Christian denomination that observes Saturday as the Sabbath
(uncommon, archaic) Synonym of Passion Sunday: the fifth Sunday in Lent.
(Judaism) Strict observance of the Sabbath.
(Judaism) One who exhibits Sabbatism; a strict observer of the Sabbath.
(Christianity, Quakerism) Wednesday (the fourth day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week).
A meeting for religious education, like a Sunday school, but held on the Sabbath day.
Synonym of Good Friday, the Friday before Easter.
(religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
The principles and practices of a Sabbatarian; the observance of the Sabbath, the keeping of the Sabbath.
The period in the Christian calendar from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday.
(Roman Catholicism) The Tuesday before Easter.
(Judaism) The intermediate days between the beginning and end of the Jewish festivals of Pesach and Sukkot, on which some work is permitted.
Alternative form of Havdalah. [(Judaism) The Jewish ceremony, involving a candle, wine and spices, that concludes the Sabbath or other holy days.]