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WEEK
workweek, week
(noun) hours or days of work in a calendar week; “they worked a 40-hour week”
week, calendar week
(noun) a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday
week, hebdomad
(noun) any period of seven consecutive days; “it rained for a week”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
week (plural weeks)
Any period of seven consecutive days.
A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
A period of five days beginning with Monday.
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.
Seven days after (sometimes before) a specified date.
Synonyms
• hebdomad, sennight
Hypernyms
• time, day, month, year
Source: Wiktionary
Week, n. Etym: [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.]
Definition: A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next. I fast twice in the week. Luke xviii. 12.
Note: Although it [the week] did not enter into the calendar of the Greeks, and was not introduced at Rome till after the reign of Theodesius, it has been employed from time immemorial in almost all Eastern countries. Encyc. Brit. Feast of Weeks. See Pentecost, 1.
– Prophetic week, a week of years, or seven years. Dan. ix. 24.
– Week day. See under Day.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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