Definition of 'week'
Word forms: plural weeks
1. countable noun
2. countable noun
3. countable noun
5. countable noun
6. countable noun
7.
See week in week out
8. weeks on end
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week in British English
noun
1. ▶ Related adjective: hebdomadal
2.
a period of seven consecutive days beginning from or including a specified day
Easter week
a week from Wednesday
3.
the period of time within a week devoted to work
4.
a week devoted to the celebration of a cause
adverb
5. mainly British
seven days before or after a specified day
I'll visit you Wednesday week
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Word origin
Old English wice, wicu, wucu; related to Old Norse vika, Gothic wikō order
week in American English
noun
1.
a period of seven days, esp. one beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday
3.
the hours or days of work in a seven-day period
to work a 40-hour week
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Word origin
ME weke < OE wicu with lengthened & lowered vowel, akin to Ger woche (OHG wohha) < IE *weig-, to bend (see weak): basic sense “period of change”
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the period of time, the calendar day, of 24 hours' duration reckoned from one midnight to the next
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(in the Roman calendar) the 15th day in March, May, July, and October and the 13th day of each other month
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the period of time, the calendar year, containing 365 days or in a leap year 366 days. It is based on the Gregorian calendar, being divided into 12 calendar months, and is reckoned from January 1 to December 31
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a calendar year of 366 days, February 29 (leap day) being the additional day, that occurs every four years (those whose number is divisible by four) except for century years whose number is not divisible by 400. It offsets the difference between the length of the solar year (365.2422 days) and the calendar year of 365 days
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(in the Roman calendar) the ninth day before the ides of each month: the seventh day of March, May, July, and October, and the fifth of each other month
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British English: week
/wiːk/ NOUN
A week is a period of seven days, which is often considered to start on Monday and end on Sunday.
I had a letter from my mother last week.
- American English: week /ˈwik/
- Arabic: أُسْبُوع
- Brazilian Portuguese: semana
- Chinese: 星期
- Croatian: tjedan
- Czech: týden
- Danish: uge
- Dutch: week 7 dagen
- European Spanish: semana
- Finnish: viikko
- French: semaine
- German: Woche
- Greek: εβδομάδα
- Italian: settimana
- Japanese: 週
- Korean: 주
- Norwegian: uke
- Polish: tydzień
- European Portuguese: semana
- Romanian: săptămână
- Russian: неделя
- Latin American Spanish: semana
- Swedish: vecka
- Thai: สัปดาห์
- Turkish: hafta
- Ukrainian: тиждень
- Vietnamese: tuần thời gian
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