Week

Noun

 * 1) A period of seven days.
 * 2) The seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
 * 3) 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.
 * 4) Seven days after (sometimes before) a specified date.
 * I'll see you Thursday week.

Derived terms

 * bush week
 * for weeks on end
 * Holy Week
 * weekend
 * weekly

Adjectives for Week
consecutive (pi); bewildering; tempestuous; momentous; previous; ensuing; successive (pi); eventful; disturbing; dreary; happy; intoxicating; long; tedious; weary.

Verbs for Week
abide—; beguile—; celebrate—; commemorate—; endure—; extend—; fix—; forecast —; fritter away—; gain—; outlast—; prolong—; reckon—s; remain—; survive—; terminate—; tolerate for—; while away—; —elapses; —expires; —inaugurates; — lapses; — marks; —s stretch.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From weke: <  wice:, wucu: <  <. Related to. The Dutch noun derives from a related verb *undefined:, via the current Dutch form wijken: 'to cede, give way'.

Related words are Old High German wohha: (Modern German Woche:), Old Frisian wike:, Middle Dutch weke:, Old Saxon wika:, Old Norse vika:, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉:, Old English wican:.

Pronunciation




Translations

 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Arabic: أسبوع (’usbu3aan) dual, (’asabii3)
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: selmana
 * Azeri:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: sizhun, sizhunioù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: setmana
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 星期 (singkei)
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Crimean Tatar: afta
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: εβδομάδα, επταήμερο
 * Guaraní: arapokõindy
 * Gujarati: અઠવાડીયું
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: שבוע
 * Hindi: हफ़्ता, सप्ताह
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: semano
 * Inari Sami: okko
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: septimana
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 週間
 * Kashubian: tidzéń
 * Khmer: អាទិត្យ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:


 * Limburgish: waek
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: nädīļ
 * Lower Sorbian: tyźeń
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malayalam: ആഴ്ച (aazhcha)
 * Maltese:
 * Maori:
 * Marathi: आठवडा (ātthvadā)
 * Navajo: ,
 * Northern Sami: vahkku
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: uke
 * Nynorsk: veke
 * Novial: semane
 * Ojibwe: anami'e-giizhik
 * Ossetian:
 * Papiamentu:
 * Persian: هفته
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: emna
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: седмица, недеља, тједан
 * Roman: sedmica, nedelja, tjedan
 * Sinhalese: සතිය
 * Skolt Sami: neä´ttel
 * Slovak: týždeň
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: linggo
 * Taos: tumį́ku
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: వారము(vaaramu)
 * Thai: สัตวาร, สัปดาห์, อาทิตย์
 * Turkish:
 * Udi:
 * Ukrainian: тиждень
 * Urdu: ہفتہ, سپتاہ
 * Uyghur: ھەپتە
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Wolof: ayubés
 * !Xóõ: bìikì
 * Yiddish: וואך

Noun

 * 1) week

Noun

 * 1) week

Derived terms

 * weekblad
 * wekelijks
 * feestweek

Adjective

 * 1) soft, tender, fragile
 * 2) weak, gentle, weakhearted

Derived terms

 * weekdier
 * weekheid
 * weekloon

Antonyms

 * hard

Etymology 1
From *undefined:, from.

Etymology 2
From *undefined:, from.

Anagrams

 * weke