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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

week Synonyms

week

n.

seven days, six days, forty-hour week, working week, work week.

week Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • spend: It spent 38 weeks in the Top Ten in 1958.
  • announce: Peter Black, the telecoms adjudicator, announced last week that the number of unbundled lines in the UK is nearing 500,000.
  • publish: The draft animal welfare Bill published last week panders to the ludicrous British obsession with the cute and cuddly.
  • come: In the coming weeks I will release the individual chapters of our manifesto for government.
  • die: He was mortally wounded in that battle and died a week later, never seeing them again.
  • follow: Skill NI was to be my work placement for the following week.

Preposition: post

op: I'm six weeks post op and go in for my 6 week check up tomorrow.

Adjective modifier

  • last: Last week, the show played to less than 40 percent capacity.
  • next: Lets see over the next few weeks what effect all our efforts have made.
  • few: Lets see over the next few weeks what effect all our efforts have made.
  • past: Despite very wet during past week, water at bottom not backed up into dig.
  • coming: SQA is on the move The Scottish Qualifications Authority will be moving to new premises in Glasgow over the coming weeks.
  • several: There will be at least three such blocks of several weeks.

Modifies a noun

period: We're working with CSV to support more charities in this two week period.

Noun used with modifier

  • twelve: At Bradford a module has twelve weeks of teaching.
  • fresher: At Manchester you go to Keswick before freshers week has even started so you make loads of friends straight away.

Preposition: before

departure: Once full payment has been made, tickets and final travel timetable are normally issued two weeks before departure.

Preposition: in

advance: Parties should be booked no later than two week in advance and paid for at the time of booking.

Preposition: of

  • pregnancy: But these are normally used only within the first eight weeks of a pregnancy.
  • receipt: We undertake to ship stock held items with in one week of receipt of order.

Browse dictionary entries near week

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  2. weedkiller
  3. weed
  4. wee-wee
  5. wee small hours
  6. wee hours
  7. wee
  8. Wednesdays
  9. Wednesday
  10. wedlock
  1. week after week
  2. weekday
  3. weekdays
  4. weekend
  5. weekend warrior
  6. weekender
  7. weekends
  8. weeklong
  9. weekly
  10. weeknight