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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Feria :: Feria (n.) A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast..
Meal :: Meal (n.) The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal..
Cross-week :: Cross-week (n.) Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions..
Tenebrae :: Tenebrae (n.) The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days..
Septuary :: Septuary (n.) Something composed of seven; a week.
Scrutiny :: Scrutiny (n.) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day..
Wyke :: Wyke (n.) Week.
Saturday :: Saturday (n.) The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday.
Stock :: Stock (n.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua)..
Month :: Month (n.) One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month..
Maundy Thursday :: Maundy Thursday () The Thursday in Passion week, or next before Good Friday..
Showbread :: Showbread (n.) Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place..
Sevennight :: Sevennight (n.) A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
Triweekly :: Triweekly (n.) A triweekly publication.
Sabbatarian :: Sabbatarian (n.) One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue..
Semiweekly :: Semiweekly (a.) Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip..
Hebdomadally :: Hebdomadally (adv.) In periods of seven days; weekly.
Psalter :: Psalter (n.) Specifically, the Book of Psalms as printed in the Book of Common Prayer; among the Roman Catholics, the part of the Breviary which contains the Psalms arranged for each day of the week..
Whitsuntide :: Whitsuntide (n.) The week commencing with Whitsunday, esp. the first three days -- Whitsunday, Whitsun Monday, and Whitsun Tuesday; the time of Pentecost..
Weekly :: Weekly (adv.) Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly..
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