Week definition
A period of seven days, esp. one beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday.
noun
A particular or specified week.
Easter week, freshman week.
noun
The hours or days of work in a seven-day period.
To work a 40-hour week.
noun
The part of a calendar week devoted to work, school, or business.
Working a three-day week.
noun
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The definition of a week is a seven-day period of time usually considered to extend from Sunday to Saturday, or a five or seven-day period devoted to some specific purpose, such as working.
The seven days on a line of a calendar that include Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are an example of a calendar week.
The five days Monday through Friday that you spend going to work instead of being off is an example of a work week or business week.
noun
A seven-day calendar period, especially one starting with Sunday and continuing through Saturday.
This week.
noun
A week designated by an event or holiday occurring within it.
Commencement week.
noun
A week dedicated to a particular cause or institution.
Home Safety Week.
noun
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One week from a specified day.
I'll see you Friday week.
noun
One week ago from a specified day.
It was Friday week that we last met.
noun
Seven days after (sometimes before) a specified date.
I'll see you Thursday week.
noun
A period of seven days.
A week of rain.
noun
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Sunday (or Monday or Tuesday, etc.) week
- a week, counting backward or forward, from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
idiom
this day (or yesterday, etc.) week
- a week, counting backward or forward, from today (or yesterday, etc.)
idiom
week after week
- every week or for many successive weeks
idiom
week by week
- each week
idiom
week in, week out
- every week
idiom
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
week
Plural:
weeksIdioms and Phrasal Verbs
Sunday (<i>or</i> Monday <i>or</i> Tuesday, <i>etc.</i>) week
this day (<i>or</i> yesterday, <i>etc.</i>) week
week after week
week by week
week in, week out
Origin of week
- Middle English weke from Old English wicu weik-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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