{
    "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
}