Definitions for week
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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1. WeeK

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

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Week

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

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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  

Suggested ResourcesRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WEEK

   What does WEEK stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the WEEK acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Matched Categories

1. • Time Period
   • Work Time

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

How to pronounce week?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say week in sign language?

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. Mike Pompeo:

   The announcement this week that were still going to have a residual footprint inside of Syria makes sense in the context of our mission statement, and the tactics will change as time goes on. Well use different tactics in different parts of the world to fight back against radical Islamic terrorism. President Trumps committed to doing that.

2. Troy Merritt:

   I’ve seen this golf course now for about 20 years, came to watch the seniors play when I was in high school and got to play it once or twice. It’s just a lot of fun. It’s great for the players, it’s great for the fans, you can make a lot of birdies, the scoring’s usually really low. So, if you like shootouts, this is the golf course for you and you’re going to get another one this week.

3. Kristie Mitchell:

   We're hoping that within the next week, two weeks, we'll have a better idea, there's toxicology that we're waiting for from the autopsies themselves, and then also from the [necropsy for the dog].

4. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock:

   Six years ago, when Detective Leslie Branch-Wise was on my detail, we became friends, and I blurred the lines between being a friend and being a boss. Our text exchanges became too casual, too familiar, and last week I learned, after six years, that they hurt her and offended her ….

5. Chuck Carlson:

   The fact that it did hold up for the same reasons that it seemed to go down last week, that’s a victory, today was kind of a nice, perhaps, first brick in the bottom being put in place.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=week
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Week
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=week
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/week
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=week
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=week
9. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Week
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html