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Week
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- 1 The squeal of a pig.
"And ho, ho, ho, went Mister Pig, and week, week, week, went she; […]"
- 1 Any period of seven consecutive days.
"Holonyms: megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond"
- 2 hours or days of work in a calendar week wordnet
- 3 A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
- 4 a period of seven consecutive days (usually reckoned to be from Sunday to Saturday, or from Monday to Sunday) wordnet
- 5 A period of five days beginning with Monday.
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- 6 any period of seven consecutive days wordnet
- 7 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."
- 8 A date seven days after (sometimes before) the specified day.
"I'll see you Thursday week. [a week on Thursday, i.e. Thursday after next]"
Etymology
From Middle English wyke, weke, from Old English wiċe, wucu (“week”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“turn, succession, change, week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Related to Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend, yield, cease”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wiek, West Frisian wike, Dutch week, German Woche, Danish uge, Norwegian Nynorsk veke, Swedish vecka, Icelandic vika, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō, “turn for temple service”), Latin vicis, Finnish viikko. Related also to Old English wīcan (“to yield, give way”), English weak and wick.
Imitative.
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