Definition of 'week'
Word forms: weeks
1. countable noun
2. countable noun
3. countable noun
4. singular noun
5. countable noun
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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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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
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Which calendar related term am I?
a period of seven consecutive days, esp one beginning with Sunday
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the period of time (lunar or synodic month) taken by the moon to make one complete revolution around the earth, measured between two successive new moons; 29.530 59 days (approximately 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 3 seconds)
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the calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 bc, identical to the present calendar in all but two aspects: the beginning of the year was not fixed on Jan 1 and leap years occurred every fourth year and in every centenary year
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(of a day, month, etc) inserted in the calendar
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a period of time extending from one date to a corresponding date in the next calendar month
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week
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
- Spanish: semana
- Swedish: vecka
- Thai: สัปดาห์
- Turkish: hafta
- Ukrainian: тиждень
- Vietnamese: tuần thời gian
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