week

a period of seven days: It has been a week since I saw him.
Not to be confused with:weak – not strong; feeble; lacking firmness or force of will: The illness had made her weak.

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W0067600 (wēk)n.1. a. A period of seven days: a week of rain.b. A seven-day calendar period, especially one starting with Sunday and continuing through Saturday: this week.2. a. A week designated by an event or holiday occurring within it: commencement week.b. A week dedicated to a particular cause or institution: Home Safety Week.3. The part of a calendar week devoted to work, school, or business: working a three-day week.4. a. One week from a specified day: I'll see you Friday week.b. One week ago from a specified day: It was Friday week that we last met.

[Middle English weke, from Old English wicu; see weik- in Indo-European roots.]

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(wiːk) n1. a period of seven consecutive days, esp one beginning with Sunday. 2. a period of seven consecutive days beginning from or including a specified day: Easter week; a week from Wednesday. 3. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) the period of time within a week devoted to work4. a week devoted to the celebration of a causeadvchiefly Brit seven days before or after a specified day: I'll visit you Wednesday week. [Old English wice, wicu, wucu; related to Old Norse vika, Gothic wikō order]

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n. 1. a period of seven successive days, usu. understood as beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday. 2. a period of seven successive days that begins with or includes an indicated day: the week of June 3. 3. (often cap.) a period of seven successive days devoted to celebrating or honoring something: National Book Week. 4. the working portion of the seven-day period; workweek: a 35-hour week. adv. 5. seven days before or after a specified day: I shall come Tuesday week. [before 900; Middle English weke, Old English wice, c. Old Saxon crūcewika Holy Week, Old High German wehha, Old Norse vika week, Gothic wikō turn]

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A week is a period of seven days. A week is usually regarded as beginning on a Monday, or sometimes on a Sunday.

She will be back next week.It will take several weeks to repair the damage.

If something happens in the week or during the week, it happens on weekdays, which are the days when people usually go to work or school, rather than at the weekend.

In the week, we get up at seven.I never have time to cook during the week.See last - lastly, next, this - that

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	week - any period of seven consecutive days; "it rained for a week"hebdomadperiod, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"calendar day, civil day - a day reckoned from midnight to midnightday of the week - any one of the seven days in a weekweek from Monday - a time period of a week or more; "a week from Monday will be too soon!"weekend - a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sundayrag week, rag - a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charitiesHoly Week, Passion Week - the week before Eastershibah, shiva, shivah - (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative; "the family is sitting shiva"
	2.	week - hours or days of work in a calendar week; "they worked a 40-hour week"workweekwork time - a time period when you are required to workcalendar week, week - a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday
	3.	week - a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sundaycalendar weekperiod, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"workweek, week - hours or days of work in a calendar week; "they worked a 40-hour week"midweek - the middle of a weekcalendar month, month - one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year; "he paid the bill last month"

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nounRelated words
adjective hebdomadal, hebdomadary

Translations

星期一个星期中的工作时间周工作周

week

(wiːk) noun1. any sequence of seven days, especially from Sunday to Saturday. It's three weeks since I saw her. 周，星期 2. the five days from Monday to Friday inclusive. He can't go during the week, but he'll go on Saturday or Sunday. 工作周（周一到周五） 3. the amount of time spent working during a period of seven days. He works a forty-eight-hour week.一个星期中的工作时间ˈweekly adjective happening, published etc once a week. a weekly magazine.每周一次的 adverb once a week. The newspaper is published weekly.每周一次地 noun – plural ˈweeklies – a publication coming out once a week. Is this newspaper a weekly or a daily?周刊ˈweekday noun any day except a Saturday or Sunday. Our office is open only on weekdays; (also adjective) weekday flights.工作日ˌweekˈend noun the period from the end of one working week until the beginning of the next (ie Saturday and Sunday, or Friday evening to Sunday evening). We spent a weekend in Paris; (also adjective) a weekend trip.周末a week last Friday etc the Friday etc before last. She died a week last Tuesday. 上周五（等） a week today/tomorrow, a week (on/next) Friday etc a week from today, tomorrow, Friday etc. I'm going away a week tomorrow; Could we meet a week (on/next) Monday ?从今天、明天或某日等起算一周后

week

→ 星期zhCN

What are your weekly rates? (US)
What are your rates per week? (UK) → 每周租金多少钱？
How much is it per week? → 每星期多少钱？
How much is it for a week? → 一周多少钱？
How much is it per week for a tent? → 一个帐篷每星期多少钱？
I'd like a ski pass for a week → 我要买一张一星期的滑雪票
How much is a pass per week? → 一张一星期的滑雪票多少钱？
Last week → 上星期
Next week → 下星期
The week after next → 下下个星期
The week before last → 上上个星期
A week ago → 一星期前
A week from today (US)
In a week's time (UK) → 一星期内

week

week,

period of time shorter than the month, commonly seven days. The ancient Egyptians used a 10-day period, as did the French under the short-lived French Revolutionary calendarFrench Revolutionary calendar,
the official calendar of France, Nov. 24, 1793–Dec. 31, 1805. Its introduction was decreed by the Convention on Oct. 5, 1793, but it was computed from Sept. 22, 1792, the autumnal equinox and the day after the proclamation of the republic.
..... Click the link for more information. . In many regions a four-day to eight-day market week is based on the recurrence of market days; the early Romans observed an eight-day market week. This period also corresponds roughly with the moon's quarter phases, which come every seven or eight days. The seven-day week is said to have originated in ancient times in W Asia, probably in Mesopotamia. This is thought to have been a planetary week predicated on the astrological concept of the influence of the planets, which were long erroneously believed to be seven celestial bodies revolving around the earth; these were the sun and moon and five of the bodies recognized today as planets—Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. The Hebrew week is based chiefly on the religious observance of the SabbathSabbath
[Heb.,=repose], in Judaism, last day of the week (Saturday), observed as a rest day for the twenty-five hours commencing with sundown on Friday. In the biblical account of creation (Gen. 1) the seventh day is set as a Sabbath to mark God's rest after his work.
..... Click the link for more information. , which comes every seventh day and is usually associated with the seventh day of creation, when the Lord rested from his labors. The Christian week and the Muslim week were probably derived chiefly from the Hebrew week, although the weekly holy days are different (Hebrew, Sabbath, seventh day; Christian, Sunday, first day; Muslim, Friday, sixth day). The influence of the weeks of Chaldaeans, Christians, and Jews slowly made itself felt in the Roman Empire, and elements of the systems were probably merged. The planetary week was at first preeminent, and the use of planetary names, based on names of pagan deities, continued even after Constantine (c.321) made the Christian week, beginning on Sunday, official in the civil calendar. The Roman names for the days of the week pervaded Western Europe; in most languages the forms are translations from Latin or attempts to assign corresponding names of divinities. The Latin names, their translations, the English equivalents, and their derivations follow: dies solis [sun's day], Sunday; dies lunae [moon's day], Monday [moonday]; dies Martis [Mars' day], Tuesday [Tiw's day]; dies Mercurii [Mercury's day], Wednesday [Woden's day]; dies Jovis [Jove's or Jupiter's day], Thursday [Thor's day]; dies Veneris [Venus' day], Friday [Frigg's day]; and dies Saturni [Saturn's day], Saturday.

Week

a seven-day period with each day named differently. A seven-day week first came into use in the ancient East. In the first century A.D., this type of week was introduced in Rome and subsequently spread through all of Western Europe. Each day of the week was designated by a different name, derived from the names of seven heavenly bodies. Thus, Saturday was called Saturn’s day, and the days following it were called, respectively, the days of the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus. In the languages of Western Europe, these names are still partially preserved.

In Slavic languages, most names of days indicate the position of the day in the week with respect to Sunday, which in many Slavic languages is called nedelia, the day on which people ne delaiut (do not work). Thus, Monday is ponedel’nik (the day after nedelia), Tuesday is vtornik (the second day), and so on.

Some peoples adopted a division of time into five-day and ten-day weeks, such as the ten-day weeks (decades) of the ancient Egyptians. Decades were also used in the calendar adopted during the French Revolution.

For any date of the 20th century, the day of the week can be found from Tables 1 and 2, which constitute a perpetual calendar. The number denoting the year is divided by 28, and the remainder is noted. For the months of March through December, this remainder itself is used, whereas for January and February, the remainder is reduced by 1. Table 1 then yields a number ƞ for a given remainder. To determine the date of one of the Sundays in a particular month, the number m corresponding to this month is found from Table 2 and added to the previously found number n. The day of the week for a given date can then be easily found.

Table 1				Table 2
Remainder	n	Remainder	n	Month	m
1 ..........	5	15 ..........	2	January ..........	2
2 ..........	4	16 ..........	7	February ..........	6
3 ..........	3	17 ..........	6	March ..........	0
4 ..........	1	18 ..........	5	April ..........	4
5 ..........	7	19 ..........	4	May ..........	2
6 ..........	6	20 ..........	2	June ..........	6
7 ..........	5	21 ..........	1	July ..........	4
8 ..........	3	22 ..........	7	August ..........	1
9 ..........	2	23 ..........	6	September ..........	5
10 ..........	1	24 ..........	4	October ..........	3
11 ..........	7	25 ..........	3	November ..........	0
12 ..........	5	26 ..........	2	December ..........	5
13 ..........	4	27 ..........	1
14 ..........	3	28 or 0 ..........	6

For instance, suppose we wish to find the day of the week for the date Feb. 23, 1975. Dividing 1975 by 28, we get a remainder of 15. Subtracting 1 from this remainder and consulting Table 1, we obtain n ═ 3. In Table 2, February corresponds to m ═ 6. Addition of ƞ and m shows that one of the Sundays in February 1975 was on the 9th of the month. Therefore, Feb. 23, 1975, also fell on a Sunday. (Table 1 has been compiled for dates of the 20th century using the New Style calendar.)

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[wēk] (astronomy) A time period of 7 days which has been accepted from ancient Babylon; the 7 days of the week were first given names of the seven celestial bodies: the sun, moon, and five visible planets.

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noun any period of seven consecutive days

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noun hours or days of work in a calendar week

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noun a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday

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