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week

[week]

noun

a period of seven successive days, usually understood as beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday.

a period of seven successive days that begins with or includes an indicated day: the week of June 3; Christmas week.

(often initial capital letter) a period of seven successive days devoted to a particular celebration, honor, cause, etc.: National Book Week.

the working days or working portion of the seven-day period; workweek: A 35-hour week is now commonplace.

adverb

British. seven days before or after a specified day: I shall come Tuesday week. He left yesterday week.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English weke, Old English wice; cognate with Dutch week, Old Norse vika week, Gothic wikō turn; akin to Latin vicis (genitive) turn (see vice³)

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Example Sentences

What's affecting me, my clients and other small-business owners this week.

The changes announced this week are designed to ease the pressure on struggling graduates.

No, the picture of the week is not going to be of baby clouded leopards.

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What's affecting me, my clients and other small-business owners this week.

The changes announced this week are designed to ease the pressure on struggling graduates.

No, the picture of the week is not going to be of baby clouded leopards.

Depending on how long you want to linger, you can travel it in a fast week or a more relaxing two.

Paintball is fun, except for the painful bruises that remind you of that fun a week after the fact.

They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week.

And she spent all of her first week of life nodding off under the heat lamp, then being startled back awake.

And of course, there was the drone comb trapping and infernal sugar dusting every week.

In summer, it's no challenge to have a different bean for supper every night of the week.

All the fashion news of the week that's fit to reprint.

Collins, was not available for comment, his spokesman said late last week.

Our correspondents look each week at what may make the headlines,.

Last week featured two stories about science: one, a disturbing.

And as for vacations, people may have two weeks or a week on paper, but many don't take.

Begin feeding with liquid fertilizer a week or two after plants reach the two-leaf stage.

So last week was packed full of double-excitement as paleontologists on two separate digs announced.

Alabama showed last week that even the top teams can't afford to come out flat.

Meet once a week with the goal of furthering one another's progress.

Organs in baby mice can recover from damage that occurs in the first week of life.

It's been a good week for people who look through microscopes at fossils.

If cut in bud, blooms last for a week in water add to my plant list.

The claim is that this will lead a battery that can power a house for a week.

In any other sport it's ridiculous to claim that anything that happens in the second week of the season can win.

Then, over the course of a mere million years-about a week and a half in people years-everything.

We did a post on how to build a bee box for solitary nesting bees earlier this week.

Add a green salad and you have a simple, special dinner for any night of the week.

Plants need about an inch of water per week through fall.

Make this flavorful fruit-and-nut mixture at the beginning of the week and sprinkle it on warm breakfast cereal or yogurt.

Lawns demand about an inch of water each week during the growing season.

They can last a week or more if you snip off the lower leaves before immersing stems in water.

Bay and rosemary leaves form a wreath that holds its fragrance for more than a week.

It takes an inch of water a week to keep turf green, but if water is tight where you live, cut that amount in half.

Each week there will be new wallpaper images to choose from.

We're celebrating the season's last great tomatoes all week.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

week (wiːk)

—n
1.	a period of seven consecutive days, esp one beginning with SundayRelated: 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

—*adv*
5.	chiefly (Brit) seven days before or after a specified day: I'll visit you Wednesday week

Related: hebdomadal

[Old English wice, wicu, wucu; related to Old Norse vika, Gothic wikō order]

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Word Origin & History

week

O.E. wice, from P.Gmc. *wikon (cf. O.N. vika, O.Fris. wike, M.Du. weke, O.H.G. wecha, Ger. woche), probably originally with the sense of "a turning" or "succession" (cf. Goth. wikon "in the course of," O.N. vika "sea-mile," originally "change of oar," O.E. wican "yield, give way"), from PIE base *weik-

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"to bend, wind" (see vicarious). "Meaning primarily 'change, alteration,' the word may once have denoted some earlier time division, such as the 'change of moon, half month,' ... but there is no positive evidence of this" [Buck]. No evidence of a native Gmc. week before contact with the Romans. The seven-day week is ancient, probably originating from the 28-day lunar cycle, divisible into four periods of seven day, at the end of each of which the moon enters a new phase. Reinforced during the spread of Christianity by the ancient Jewish seven-day week. As a Roman astrological convention it was borrowed by other European peoples; the Gmc. tribes substituting their own deities for those of the Romans, without regard to planets. The Coligny calendar suggests a Celtic division of the month into halves; the regular Gk. division of the month was into three decades; and the Romans also had a market week of nine days.

"Greek planetary names [for the days of the week] ... are attested for the early centuries of our era, but their use was apparently restricted to certain circles; at any rate they never became popular. In Rome, on the other hand, the planetary names became the established popular terms, too strongly intrenched to be displaced by the eccl[esiastical] names, and spreading through most of western Europe." [Buck]

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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Week definition

From the beginning, time was divided into weeks, each consisting of six days of working and one of rest (Gen. 2:2, 3; 7:10; 8:10, 12; 29:28). The references to this division of days becomes afterwards more frequent (Ex. 34:22; Lev. 12:5; Num. 28:26; Deut. 16:16; 2 Chr. 8:13; Jer. 5:24; Dan. 9:24-27; 10:2, 3). It has been found to exist among almost all nations.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

week

period of seven days, a unit of time artificially devised with no astronomical basis. The origin of the term is generally associated with the ancient Jews and the biblical account of the Creation, according to which God laboured for six days and rested on the seventh. Evidence indicates, however, that the Jews may have borrowed the idea of the week from Mesopotamia, for the Sumerians and the Babylonians divided the year into weeks of seven days each, one of which they designated a day of recreation.

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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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