this yesterday week

Variant of week

week definition

week (wēk)

noun

  1. a period of seven days, esp. one beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday
  2. a particular or specified week Easter week, freshman week
  3. the hours or days of work in a seven-day period to work a 40-hour week

Etymology: ME weke < OE wicu with lengthened & lowered vowel, akin to Ger woche (OHG wohha) < IE *weig-, to bend (see weak): basic sense “period of change”

week Idioms

Sunday week

or Monday week or Tuesday week
Chiefly Brit. a week (counting backward or forward) from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)

this day week

or this yesterday week
Chiefly Brit. a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)

week after week

every week or for many successive weeks

week by week

each week

week in, week out

every week

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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