See Also: week(1)(dictionary)
week(2)(dictionary)
week(dictionary)
WEEK(law)
Holy Week(dictionary)
DAYS OF THE WEEK(law)
Split Week - Poker(gambling)

week(2) (iou)



week noun. [wi:k]
[Old English wice, wicu, corresp. to Old Frisian wike, Old Saxon -wika in crucewika Holy Week (Dutch week), Old High German wehha, wohha (German Woche), Old Norse vika, Gothic wiko (translating Greek taxis order), from Germanic noun prob. meaning 'series, succession' and rel. to Latin vic-: see VICE preposition, VICE-.]
The cycle of seven successive days recognized in the Jewish calendar and from there adopted in the calendars of Christian, Muslim, and various other peoples; a single period of this cycle, beginning with the day traditionally fixed as the first day of the week (now usu. reckoned from and to midnight on Saturday-Sunday). OE.
M. Dorris She..listens to the radio every week instead of going to..church. Independent Heads of foreign missions plan to meet next week.
b. With specifying word: a particular week of the year, the whole or part of which is assigned to a specific event, purpose, cause, action, or observance; the date of a specific festival etc. OE.
Easter Week, Ember Week, Holy Week, etc.
Police Chief The ceremony..took place during National Police Week.
a. A period of seven days, reckoned from any point. Freq. in a week today, a week yesterday, a week Saturday, etc. OE.
Beverley Cleary A week's collection of dirty socks..under her bed. P. Barker I believe he volunteered...The first week of the war.
b. Seven days as a term for periodical payments of wages, rent, etc., or as a unit of reckoning for time of work or service. LME.
J. Hersey Fired him. After thirty-four years, they gave him two weeks' notice.
c. An indefinite time; in pl., a long indefinite period of time. LME.
C. Brayfield Why not..think about it for a week or two? Reader's Digest None of our children came over to see us for weeks.
The period of time spent at work, formerly the six days between Sundays and now usu. the five days from Monday to Friday, excluding the weekend. Also, an amount of work done during this period. OE.
Architects' Journal Generous benefits including..a 35-hour week with flexitime.
With specifying word, as Monday, tomorrow, yesterday, etc.: seven days before or after the day mentioned. LME.
E. O'Brien He would be drawing the dole by the following Monday week.
Phrases: a week every week, weekly, per week. be in by the week be ensnared or caught; fig. be deeply in love. day of the week each of the seven days constituting a week, as Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc. feast of weeks = PENTECOST 1. knock into the middle of next week: see KNOCK verb. the other week: see OTHER adjective. three day week: see THREE noun. TODAY week. too late a week joc. far too late (now chiefly with allus. to Shakes. A.Y.L.). week and week about in alternate weeks. week in, week out: see IN adverb. week of Sundays an indefinitely long period (cf. MONTH of Sundays).
Comb.: weeklong adjective & adverb (lasting) for a whole week; weeknight a night in the week other than at the weekend or (formerly) other than Sunday night; weeknightly adverb (US) occurring every weeknight; week-to-week adjective continuing or recurring in successive weeks; continual; week-work Law (now Hist.) work done for a lord by a tenant for a certain number of days a week.