Week
[wiːk] or [wik]
Definition
(noun.) a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday.
(noun.) any period of seven consecutive days; 'it rained for a week'.
Edited by Blair--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.
Editor: Sallust
Definition
n. (Spens.). Same as Wick.
n. the space of seven days esp. from Sunday to Sunday: the six working days of the week.—n. Week′day any day of the week except Sunday.—adj. Week′ly coming happening or done once a week.—adv. once a week.—n. a publication appearing once a week.—Week about in alternate periods of seven days.—A prophetic week (B.) seven years; A week of Sundays (coll.) seven weeks: a long time; Feast of Weeks a Jewish festival lasting seven weeks; Great Week Holy Week Passion Week the week preceding Easter Sunday; This day week a week from to-day.
Edited by Antony
Examples
- His father could not live the week out. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I have noticed you go past our house, sir, several times in the course of the last week or so. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The Middletons were to follow in about a week. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Old Uncle Peter sung both de legs out of dat oldest cheer, last week, suggested Mose. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Even so soon as next week. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It would have been an easier task a week ago, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He has been wondering that he has not seen you for a whole week. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This had been going on more than five months, seven days a week, when I was called down to the laboratory to see him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- My dear son, you contemplate an absence of a week, I think? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As Parker promised to return to Fanny in a week, she grew uneasy when almost a fortnight had elapsed without seeing or even hearing from him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In the course of the week, the post brought me a note. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mr Barretti was informed, that the weekly packet-boat from Lisbon brings, one week with another, more than ?50,000 in gold to England. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They met once a week at Goddard's in Wood Street, at the Bull's Head Tavern in Cheapside, and at Gresham Colleg e. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Everything was arranged in a week for my accompanying Worcester to Spain. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He should not have planned such an absence--he should not have left home for a week, when her own departure from Mansfield was so near. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Some weeks of spare time were at my disposal, before I entered on my functions by establishing myself in the suburbs of London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They only knew each other, I think, a few weeks in Bath! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Three months comprised thirteen weeks. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Every few weeks thou dost bring in twelve or more books, written in half the time it takes our quickest scribe to make a single copy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This lost to us the use of his troops for several weeks from the defence of the North. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For two weeks now they haven't changed them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Six weeks ago, at the American consul's, in Paris, a very quiet wedding of course, for even in our happiness we didn't forget dear little Beth. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Did not you come to our house once with Mrs. Pryor, about five weeks since, to ask after him? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I worked on this cable more than two weeks, and the best I could do was two words per minute, which was only one-seventh of what the guaranteed speed of the cable should be when laid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Why, my pet of pets, I could have told you that weeks and weeks ago! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Byllesby and the late Luther Stieringer, was completed and in operation within six weeks after the placing of the order. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Altogether, on the Isthmus and on the Pacific side, we were delayed six weeks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I told you we shall be married in four weeks. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Say, Plornish, though six weeks in arrear to my proprietor, declines. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It went into service August 15, 1882, about three weeks before the Pearl Street station. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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