Whereas "at 9 o'clock" implies starting at 9, but continuing for an flexible length of time; similarly "at Christmas" implies starting at some point during the Christmas period, not necessarily "on Christmas Day"; "at the weekend" implies some point during the weekend which could either be Saturday or Sunday or both.

2018年10月30日 · @FumbleFingers But if the boss says he needs it by Monday morning, you might say "It's ok, I'll do it at the weekend". (Or you could say "I'll do it over the weekend.) An American would in all likelihood say "Ok, I'll do it on the weekend". "I work weekends" is used in a different context - I would suggest. –

Following this definition, "next weekend" will always mean the weekend with the start date in closes proximity in time. If the phrase is used during a weekend, of course, you'd be referring to the weekend following the one you are currently experiencing. However, the issue gets more complicated if you look to other definitions.

2006年2月19日 · I normally work out Monday to Friday but at the weekend I tend not to exercise at all because weekend is (the weekend is) the time that I reward myself for 5 days of working out hard. So, during the weekend, I just go out with friends and have a lot of fun. (I wrote this after I read other posts. I hope it's right)

2006年12月2日 · The adjectival or attributive version is generally weekend - weekend bag, weekend sailor. "Something for the weekend," is always so There are no examples of week-end, or weekend being used to mean the end of the week. Edit: Correction, there is one example for definition 1.c "The end (i.e. the last day) of the week; Saturday. dial."

2012年11月18日 · "It's weekend" is abnormal and ungrammatical. "It's Saturday" is normal, grammatical, and idiomatic. "It's the weekend" is normal, grammatical, and idiomatic. "It's a weekend" is normal, grammatical, and idiomatic. The latter two sentences have slightly different meanings. "It's the weekend" is an announcement about the date, as in: "Today is ...

2018年11月28日 · When we use time adverbs with 'this' /this week, this year, this month, etc./, no preposition is necessary. You can express the period 'on Saturday and Sunday' with 'at the weekend' /British English/ or 'on the weekend /American English/.

2013年5月3日 · Saying 'by the weekend' takes me to any point in the period of time saturday-sunday (probably from friday afternoon) because I'm a student. As a student my week is made up of 5 days, from monday to friday, so the end of the week for me is friday, when my last class at school actually finishes.

2021年5月19日 · "At weekends" is not really what one could call "more appropriate", as it does mean the same thing, but it is used more often than "at the weekend": ngram. Without changing the meaning you can use "on" instead of "at" and you find that "on weekends" is much more often used than any other in AmE: ngram. This is not so in BrE: ngram

2012年8月16日 · So technically part of a weekend starts at the beginning and another weekend starts at the end of the week. So when someone says, for example, the weekend of the 24th (the 24th being a Monday) they are not using good grammar or reference. The 24th doesn’t fall on a weekend day ... therefor there is NO “weekend of the 24th.