Week Definition

wēk
weeks
noun
weeks
A period of seven days, esp. one beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday.
Webster's New World
The hours or days of work in a seven-day period.
To work a 40-hour week.
Webster's New World
A week designated by an event or holiday occurring within it.
Commencement week.
American Heritage
A particular or specified week.
Easter week, freshman week.
Webster's New World
A week dedicated to a particular cause or institution.
Home Safety Week.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
idiom
Sunday (<i>or</i> Monday <i>or</i> Tuesday, <i>etc.</i>) week
  • a week, counting backward or forward, from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
Webster's New World
this day (<i>or</i> yesterday, <i>etc.</i>) week
  • a week, counting backward or forward, from today (or yesterday, etc.)
Webster's New World
week after week
  • every week or for many successive weeks
Webster's New World
week by week
  • each week
Webster's New World
week in, week out
  • every week
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Week

Noun

Singular:
week
Plural:
weeks

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Week

  • Sunday (or Monday or Tuesday, etc.) week
  • this day (or yesterday, etc.) week
  • week after week
  • week by week
  • week in, week out

Origin of Week

  • From Middle English weke, from Old English wice, wucu (“week"), from Proto-Germanic *wikÇ­ (“turn, succession, change, week"), from Proto-Indo-European *weig-, *weik- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield"). Related to Proto-Germanic *wÄ«kanÄ… (“to bend, yield, cease"). The Dutch noun derives from a related verb *waikwaz (“to yield"), via the current Dutch form wijken (“to cede, give way").

    From Wiktionary

  • Related words are Old High German wohha (Modern German Woche), Old Frisian wike (West Frisian wike), Middle Dutch weke (“week") (modern Dutch week), Old Saxon wika, Old Norse vika (Icelandic vika, Norwegian veke Danish uge), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikô, “turn for temple service"), Old English wÄ«can.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English weke from Old English wicu weik-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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