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weeks

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1. weeks

   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. WEEKS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Weeks is ranked #831 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Weeks surname appeared 41,565 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 14 would have the surname Weeks.
   
   84.3% or 35,073 total occurrences were White.
   9.9% or 4,144 total occurrences were Black.
   2.4% or 1,018 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.8% or 752 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.8% or 349 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 229 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'weeks' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #682

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'weeks' in Written Corpus Frequency: #461

How to pronounce weeks?

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 weeks in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of weeks in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of weeks in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of weeks in a Sentence

1. Sebastian Gorka:

   It was tough. We know he's tough because of the border issue and everything else, but yeah, it was internally inconsistent, when he talked about the attitude to our allies, to whether they should freeload or not, also when he talked about Russia and China, I was really disturbed. The things he said about how we can work with Russia and China, Russia is not on our side. The head of Russia is a former KGB colonel who wanted to destroy America. China is the world's most powerful communist nation so the idea, if you think we can work with these guys in meaningful fashion, I think history would prove you wrong. So it's an improvement. I have to be honest, it's an improvement, but it's still problematic and I need a more substantial development of his ideas in the next few weeks and months.

2. Daniel Koch:

   The worst-case forecasts that were made weeks ago have not materialized.

3. Chris Grier:

   We talked to many many very qualified candidates for this job in both pro and college football, what resonated with us was how excited everyone was for this job. Even in the last two weeks, there were people that were calling trying to get into this job. Steve was very calculated and made sure that we did n’t rush this process. There were times when I was like, let’s go, let’s push this forward and Steve was, ‘ Hey, let’s make sure we do this as thoroughly and correctly as we can. ’.

4. Tiger Woods:

   I keep saying it, but I am. I really am... Just to get to this point, just to be able to play, and not only just to play, but I put up a good first round. I got Tiger Woods there. I don't quite have the endurance that I would like to have had, but as of a few weeks ago, didn't even know if I was going to play in this event.

5. Albert Einstein:

   When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeks
2. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html