week

 
Pronunciation: /wiːk/

noun

  • a period of seven days: the course lasts sixteen weeks he’d cut the grass a week ago
  • the period of seven days generally reckoned from and to midnight on Saturday night: she has an art class twice a week
  • workdays as opposed to the weekend; the five days from Monday to Friday: I work during the week, so I can only get to this shop on Saturdays
  • the time spent working in this period: she works a 48-hour week
  • British informal used after the name of a day to indicate that something will happen seven days after that day: the programme will be broadcast on Sunday week

Phrases

a week on ——

seven days after the specified day or date: we’ll be back a week on Friday

week in, week out

every week without exception.

Origin:

Old English wice, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch week and German Woche, from a base probably meaning 'sequence, series'