week

IPA: wˈik

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.

Examples of "week" in Sentences

_A week, a week, a week_, replied the stubborn little animal.
The biggest Rock Band release this week is the arrival of Green Day Rock Band to stores.
It’s bad enough that finals start a week from today and Professor Assface is going to give us two projects this week
Christmas week, by which I understood _next week_; I thought Christmas week was that which Christmas Sunday ushered in.
But the most exciting news for me this week is the announcement that Scarecrow and Mrs. King is coming to DVD in March.
Out this week is a new, two-disc 50th Anniversary Edition of North by Northwest, the second best Alfred Hitchcock film.
"Except this man who turned up here in George's own camp -- and in the village, two months ago, but whom I never saw till this week -- _this week_ -- Armistice Day -- John Dempsey.
"In short, said the worthy Bramin, if I were to repeat the same questions to him a month, or even a year hence, I should not prevail upon him to say _now_; but his constant answer would be, _a week, a week, a week_.
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_corvée_, that is to say, an unfixed amount of ploughing, which the steward could demand every week when it was needed; the distinction corresponds to the distinction between _week work_ and _boon work_ in the later Middle Ages.