week

The squeal of a pig.

Interjection

  1. The squeal of a pig.
    • And ho, ho, ho, went Mister Pig, and week, week, week, went she; […] - 1837, William Evans Burton, Burton's Comic Songster, page 229:
    • […] his head came a-top of one of a litter of young pigs that happened at that moment to be foraging about: week! week! week! week! week! cried little piggy. - 1848, The Garland, Or, Token of Friendship, page 231:

Origin

Imitative.

Noun

  1. Any period of seven consecutive days.
    • Holonyms: megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond <...
    • Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond <...
    • Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear...

    Synonyms: sevennight sennight hebdomad

    Related: wk wks

  2. A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
  3. A period of five days beginning with Monday.
  4. A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.
    • A 4-day week consists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
  5. A date seven days after (sometimes before) the specified day.
    • I'll see you Thursday week. [a week on Thursday, i.e. Thursday after next]
    • The wedding is tomorrow week. [a week tomorrow, i.e. in eight days' time]

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyg-der. Proto-Germanic *wikǭ Proto-West Germanic *wikā Old English wiċe Middle English wyke English week From Middle English wyke, weke, from Old English wiċe, wucu (“week”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“sequence; week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, curve”). Related to weak and dialectal English wick (“corner”); see Proto-Germanic *wīk(w)aną (“to bend, yield, cease”). Cognates Cognate with Scots ouk, oulk (“week”), Yola wick, wik (“week”), North Frisian waag, Week, weg (“week”), Saterland Frisian Wiek, Wíek (“week”), West Frisian wike (“week”), Bavarian Wochn (“week”), Cimbrian boch, bòcha (“week”), Dutch week (“week”), German Woche (“week”), German Low German Week (“week”), Limburgish waek, Wéëk (“week”), Luxembourgish Woch (“week”), Mòcheno boch (“week”), Vilamovian woch (“week”), Yiddish וואָך...

Forms

weeks weeke

Synonyms

hebdomad sennight sevennight week

Hypernyms

period

Hyponyms

0th week boxing week bull week bush week Ember week dead week fashion week five-day week freshers' week frosh week Gangtide Golden Week half term hell week holiweek Holy Week jobweek leap week March break matchweek May Week next week noughth week orientation week

Related

calendar Sabbath

Derived

boxing week bull week bush week coasties week dead week Ember week fashion week finals week five-day week freshers' week frosh week Golden Week hell week Holy Week leap week leavers week midweek mid-week noughth week 0th week orientation week prophetic week rag week reading week