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week

Pronunciation: /wiːk/
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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 during a week: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'

week in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of week in the US English dictionary
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