The Collaborative International Dictionary
Week-end \Week"-end"\, n. The end of the week, usually comprising the period from Friday evening to Monday morning, observed commonly as a period of respite from work or school; as, to visit one for a week-end; also, a house party during a week-end. Contrasted to work days.
Note: Where work days continue throught Saturday morning, the weekend starts on Saturday at noon.
Wiktionary
n. (context dated English) (alternative spelling of weekend English)
Wikipedia
Week-end is a 1935 Danish film directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr. and Alice O'Fredericks.
Usage examples of "week-end".
I put in an occasional week-end with her and Chuffy, and when she comes to London on a shopping binge or whatever it may be, I see to it that she gets her calories.
Athelstan students, except Miss Giggs, Miss Mathers and a First-Year South African student named Firth, would be out of Hall during the long week-end.
But -- come to thik of it, I might possibly run up there next week-end to recover it.
On the Friday evening before, as she was being driven back to the farm for the week-end by one of the hired men, she had on an impulse done a thing that had startled her, and as John Hardy stood in the darkness below and called her name softly and insistently, she walked about in her room and wondered what new impulse had led her to commit so ridiculous an act.
Certainly it was Peony who, on her own impulse, skipped up to Kinnikinick for a week-end.
He wondered for a moment whether he was being led into a trap - then he sensed that the meeting-place was to be one of the many wooden dachas built in the Arkhangelskoe district -summer and week-end homes for prominent members of the Party and the bureaucracy.
Gaspilton, had always looked indulgently on the country as a place where people of irreproachable income and hospitable instincts cultivated tennis-lawns and rose-gardens and Jacobean pleasaunces, wherein selected gatherings of interested week-end guests might disport themselves.
Then he said, "You were down at Market Basing, I think, the week-end before Miss Arundell's death?
The Bigwigs of this week-end were quite a different lot from those of three weeks ago, and comparatively homogeneous, having only three different plans for settling the land question, none of which, fortunately, involved any more real disturbance of the existing state of things than the potato, brownbread plan, for all were based on the belief held by the respectable press, and constructive portions of the community, that omelette can be made without breaking eggs.
Esa pirotecnia inocente me ha valido un week-end en Villa Devoto, un duro exilio de la petaca doméstica y de la cuartilla consuetudinaria.
For a good many years he had blithely accepted the invitations of his friends - dinners, balls, week-end and yachting parties, paying his way with an occasional box of flowers.
The huge Van Alstyne house and its rambling dependencies were packed to their fullest capacity with the Gormers' week-end guests, who now, in the radiance of the Sunday forenoon, were dispersing themselves over the grounds in quest of the various distractions the place afforded: distractions ranging from tennis-courts to shooting-galleries, from bridge and whiskey within doors to motors and steam-launches without.
She did not like to think of him brooding all the week-end over possible deportation back into the displaced persons' camps of Europe.
One Saturday, he had gone to take the subway to Pennsylvania Station en route for the Soviet week-end rest camp at Glen Cove, the former Morgan estate on Long Island.
He nearly got his licence suspended at Cheltenham, and he sweated his guts out for three days at the week-end, all in the screaming heeby-jeebies worked up by yours truly.