Week

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Week \Week\, n. [OE. weke, wike, woke, wuke AS. weocu, wicu,
     wucu; akin to OS. wika, OFries. wike, D. week, G. woche, OHG.
     wohha, wehha, Icel. vika, Sw. vecka, Dan. uge, Goth. wik?,
     probably originally meaning, a succession or change, and akin
     to G. wechsel change, L. vicis turn, alternation, and E.
     weak. Cf. {Weak}.]


     A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one
     Sabbath or Sunday to the next.
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           I fast twice in the week.                --Luke xviii.
                                                    12.
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     Note: Although it [the week] did not enter into the calendar
           of the Greeks, and was not introduced at Rome till
           after the reign of Theodesius, it has been employed
           from time immemorial in almost all Eastern countries.
           --Encyc. Brit.
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     {Feast of Weeks}. See {Pentecost}, 1.
  
     {Prophetic week}, a week of years, or seven years. --Dan. ix.
        24.
  
     {Week day}. See under {Day}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  week
       n 1: any period of seven consecutive days; "it rained for a week"
            [syn: {hebdomad}]
       2: a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday [syn:
          {calendar week}]
       3: hours or days of work in a calendar week; "they worked a
          40-hour week" [syn: {workweek}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "week":
     Heptateuch, abundant year, academic year, annum, bissextile year,
     calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, day, decade,
     decennary, decennium, defective year, fiscal year, fortnight,
     heptachord, heptad, heptagon, heptahedron, heptameter, heptarchy,
     heptastich, hour, leap year, lunar month, lunar year, lunation,
     luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond,
     minute, moment, month, moon, quarter, quinquennium, regular year,
     second, semester, septennate, septet, septuor, session, seven,
     sevener, sidereal year, solar year, sun, term, trimester,
     twelvemonth, weekday, year
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Week
     From the beginning, time was divided into weeks, each consisting
     of six days of working and one of rest (Gen. 2:2, 3; 7:10; 8:10,
     12; 29:28). The references to this division of days becomes
     afterwards more frequent (Ex. 34:22; Lev. 12:5; Num. 28:26;
     Deut. 16:16; 2 Chr. 8:13; Jer. 5:24; Dan. 9:24-27; 10:2, 3). It
     has been found to exist among almost all nations.
     

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  WEEK. Seven days of time. 
       2. The week commences immediately after twelve o'clock, on the night 
  between Saturday and Sunday, and ends at twelve o'clock, seven days of 
  twenty-four hours each thereafter. 
       3. The first day of the week is called Sunday; (q.v.) the second, 
  Monday; the third, Tuesday; the, fourth, Wednesday; the fifth, Thursday; the 
  sixth, Friday; and the seventh, Saturday. Vide 4 Pet. S. C. Rep. 361.