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week

Syllabification: (week)
Pronunciation: /wēk/
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Definition of week

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 the workday period of five to seven days:she works a 48-hour week
  • a period of five or seven days devoted to a specified purpose or beginning on a specified day:Super Bowl week the week of June 23
  • informal, chiefly British used after the name of a day to indicate that something will happen seven days after that day:the program will be broadcast on Sunday week

Phrases

week after week

during each successive week, especially over a long period:week after week of overcast skies

week by week

gradually and steadily over the weeks:Monday evening demonstrations grew week by week

a week from ——

used to state that something is due to happen seven days after the specified day or date:we’ll be back a week from 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'

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Definition of week in the British & World English dictionary

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