week
Any period of seven consecutive days.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
“A 4-day week consists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.”
Interjection 1 meaning
The squeal of a pig.
Etymology
From Middle English wyke, weke, from Old English wice, wucu (“week”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“sequence; week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, curve”). Related to weak and dialectal English wick (“corner”); see Proto-Germanic *wīk(w)aną (“to bend, yield, cease”).
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WEEK at a glance
WEEK has 4 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (W 4 + E 1 + E 1 + K 5) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #236 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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