Week

• POS: Noun, Adverb

CIDE DICTIONARY

Week, n. [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.].

 A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.  [1913 Webster]
" 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. "  Encyc. Brit.  [1913 Webster]
"I fast twice in the week."  [1913 Webster]

Feast of Weeks. See Pentecost, 1. -- Prophetic week, a week of years, or seven years. Dan. ix. 24. -- Week day. See under Day.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Week, n.
1 a period of seven days reckoned usu. from and to midnight on Saturday-Sunday.
2 a period of seven days reckoned from any point (would like to stay for a week).
3 the six days between Sundays.
4 a the five days Monday to Friday. b a normal amount of work done in this period (a 35-hour week).
5 (in pl.) a long time; several weeks (have not seen you for weeks; did it weeks ago).
6 (prec. by a specified day) a week after (that day) (Tuesday week; tomorrow week).

Etymology

OE wice f. Gmc, prob. orig. = sequence

THESAURUS

Week

Heptateuch, abundant year, academic year, annum, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, fiscal year, fortnight, heptachord, heptad, heptagon, heptahedron, heptameter, heptarchy, heptastich, hour, leap year, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, second, semester, septennate, septet, septuor, session, seven, sevener, sidereal year, solar year, sun, term, trimester, twelvemonth, weekday, year

ROGET THESAURUS

Week

Period

N period, age, era, second, minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade, decenniumm lustrum, quinquennium, lifetime, generation, epoch, ghurry, lunation, moon, century, millennium, annus magnus, horary, hourly, annual.