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Princeton's WordNet

  1. week, hebdomadnoun

    any period of seven consecutive days

    "it rained for a week"

  2. workweek, weeknoun

    hours or days of work in a calendar week

    "they worked a 40-hour week"

  3. week, calendar weeknoun

    a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday

Wiktionary

  1. weeknoun

    Any period of seven consecutive days.

  2. weeknoun

    A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.

  3. weeknoun

    A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.

  4. weeknoun

    Seven days after ( before) a specified date.

    I'll see you Thursday week.

  5. Etymology: From weke, from wice, wucu, from wikōn, from weig-. Related to wīkanan. The Dutch noun derives from a related verb, via the current Dutch form wijken.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. WEEKnoun

    The space of seven days.

    Etymology: weoc , Saxon; weke, Dutch; wecka, Swedish.

    Fulfill her week, and we will give thee this also. Gen. xxix.

Wikipedia

  1. Week

    A week is a unit of time equal to seven days. It is the standard time period used for short cycles of days in most parts of the world. The days are often used to indicate common work days and rest days, as well as days of worship. Weeks are often mapped against yearly calendars, but are typically not the basis for them, as weeks are not based on astronomy. The modern seven-day week can be traced back to the Babylonians, who used it within their calendar. Other ancient cultures had different week lengths, including ten in Egypt and an eight-day week for Etruscans. The Etruscan week was adopted by the Ancient Romans, but they later moved to a seven-day week, which had spread across Western Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean. In 321 CE, Emperor Constantine officially decreed a seven-day week in the Roman Empire, including making Sunday a public holiday. This later spread across Europe, then the rest of the world. In English, the names of the days of the week are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In many languages, the days of the week are named after gods or planets visible to the eye. Such a week may be called a planetary week.Cultures vary in which days of the week are designated the first and the last, though virtually all have Saturday, Sunday or Monday as the first day. The Geneva-based ISO standards organization uses Monday as the first day of the week in its ISO week date system through the international ISO 8601 standard. Most of Europe and China consider Monday the first day of the week, most of North America and South Asia consider Sunday the first day, while Saturday is judged as the first day of the week in much of the Middle East and North Africa. Other regions are mixed, but typically observe either Sunday or Monday as the first day. The Christian and Jewish weeks begin on Sunday (a day of worship) and end with a sabbath day, both following the interpretation in the Hebrew Bible in which God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh.

ChatGPT

  1. WeeK

    A week is a unit of time equivalent to seven days, typically starting on a Sunday and ending on a Saturday.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Weeknoun

    a period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next

  2. Etymology: [OE. weke, wike, woke, wuke AS. weocu, wicu, wucu; akin to OS. wika, OFries. wike, D. week, G. woche, OHG. wohha, wehha, Icel. vika, Sw. vecka, Dan. uge, Goth. wik, probably originally meaning, a succession or change, and akin to G. wechsel change, L. vicis turn, alternation, and E. weak. Cf. Weak.]

Wikidata

  1. Week

    A week is a time unit equal to seven days. It is the standard time period used for cycles of work days and rest days in most parts of the world. The term "week" is sometimes expanded to refer to other time units comprising a few days. Such "weeks" of between four and ten days have been used historically in various places. Intervals longer than 10 days are not usually termed "weeks" as they are closer in length to the fortnight or the month than to the seven-day week.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Week

    wēk, n. the space of seven days, esp. from Sunday to Sunday: the six working days of the week.—n. Week′day, any day of the week except Sunday.—adj. Week′ly, coming, happening, or done once a week.—adv. once a week.—n. a publication appearing once a week.—Week about, in alternate periods of seven days.—A prophetic week (B.), seven years; A week of Sundays (coll.), seven weeks: a long time; Feast of Weeks, a Jewish festival lasting seven weeks; Great Week, Holy Week, Passion Week, the week preceding Easter Sunday; This day week, a week from to-day. [A.S. wice; Dut. week, Ger. woche.]

  2. Week

    wēk, n. (Spens.). Same as Wick.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Week

    division of time of seven days, supposed to have been suggested by the interval between the quarters of the moon.

Editors Contribution

  1. week

    A unit of known time on planet earth.

    A week is 7 days on planet earth.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 1, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. WEEK

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Week is ranked #58735 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Week surname appeared 345 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Week.

    83.7% or 289 total occurrences were White.
    9.2% or 32 total occurrences were Black.
    2.9% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.3% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'week' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #307

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'week' in Written Corpus Frequency: #188

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'week' in Nouns Frequency: #31

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of week in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of week in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of week in a Sentence

  1. Seth Rogen:

    I went from wiping my groceries to having Paul Bettany sneeze in my face. That’s a big week.

  2. Ernesto Parivos:

    At the end of the week, maybe the food is going ... finished.

  3. Alexander Kvamme:

    I think there's a very good chance that we're three days a week in the office this year, four days a week in the office next year and we're just back to normal in two years.

  4. Alex Kumar:

    Your hormones start to get misplaced and this causes chaos switching you from Los Angeles to Timbuktu to Fiji time zones week by week.

  5. Sharon Palmer:

    Even going meatless one day a week can make a difference, as you increase all of those whole plant foods -- beans, lentils, whole grains, nuts, seeds, vegetables, fruits -- and decrease more animal foods, in particular red and processed meat, high intakes of these foods have been linked with increased disease risk.

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