Definition of long weekend in English:
long weekend
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noun
A vacation period that includes one or more of the days preceding or following a weekend, in addition to the Saturday and Sunday.
‘we went to Paris for a long weekend’- ‘I'm off to the beaches for a long weekend.’
- ‘Ireland's capital city makes a good destination for a long weekend city break.’
- ‘Once I leave here this evening, I'm on a long weekend and won't be back in the office until Tuesday.’
- ‘I was spending a long weekend in Skegness.’
- ‘I'd been concerned about getting as far as possible before the dreaded long weekend traffic blocked up all the roads, but it just didn't seem to happen this weekend.’
- ‘We got a lovely invite from my cousin to go up to Wales for the Easter long weekend.’
- ‘The long weekend began with gorgeous weather as thousands were flocking out of the city.’
- ‘We're enjoying last-minute long weekends in Barcelona and Paris with increasing regularity.’
- ‘New Zealanders flock here for long weekends and nominate it as the city they'd most like to live in.’
- ‘The temptation to spend idyllic long weekends in the British countryside is enough to get most of us dragging suitcases out of the loft.’
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