Definition of week

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Week (n.) A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next..

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Midweek :: Midweek (n.) The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.
Semiweekly :: Semiweekly (n.) That which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical..
Shooting :: Shooting (n.) A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting..
Hebdomad :: Hebdomad (n.) A week; a period of seven days.
Biweekly :: Biweekly (a.) Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly.
Septuary :: Septuary (n.) Something composed of seven; a week.
Bill :: Bill (n.) Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc..
Sabbath :: Sabbath (n.) A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day..
Biweekly :: Biweekly (n.) A publication issued every two weeks.
Coming :: Coming (a.) Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition..
Hebdomadally :: Hebdomadally (adv.) In periods of seven days; weekly.
Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt..
Typhus :: Typhus (n.) A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail..
Wowke :: Wowke (n.) Week.
Hebdomatical :: Hebdomatical (a.) Weekly; hebdomadal.
Friday :: Friday (n.) The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday..
Sunday :: Sunday (n.) The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day..
Fortnight :: Fortnight (n.) The space of fourteen days; two weeks.
Concurrent :: Concurrent (n.) One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; -- so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow..
Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week..
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