week
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
week/wiːk/
▶noun
- 1 a period of seven days.
■ the period of seven days generally reckoned from and to midnight on Saturday night.
■ Brit. (preceded by a specified day) a week after (that day): the programme will be broadcast on Sunday week.
- 2 the five days from Monday to Friday, or the time spent working during this period.
– origin OE wice, of Gmc origin, from a base prob. meaning ‘sequence, series’.
'week' also found in these Oxford entries:
biweekly
- deictic
- dress-down Friday
- early closing
- ferial
- Friday
- Holy Week
- Low Sunday
- Low Week
- midweek
- Monday
- next
- other
- part-time
- Passion Week
- past
- p.w.
- running
- Saturday
- schoolie
- sennight
- short time
- spring break
- Sunday
- Tenebrae
- Thursday
- tomorrow
- Tuesday
- washday
- weakfish
- Wednesday
- weekday
- weekly
- Whitsuntide
- wk
- workweek
- zeugma
- 24-7
