week
any period of seven consecutive days
How often you will meet it
Rank 627 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 30,613 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.015% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- any period of seven consecutive days also: hebdomad it rained for a week
- hours or days of work in a calendar week also: workweek they worked a 40-hour week
- a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday also: calendar week
week in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I drill with the volunteers twice a week, and lend a hand at the farms.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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She managed so well, that each day of the following week, the hour of their walk was changed.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Tell her I sent you to her, and that she must take you in for ten shillings a week.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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During the following week not a day passed without the receipt of that accursed cutting from some new extract company.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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I propose some day next week to commence a general fusilade from the windows of my office upon the passers-by.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1