a period of seven days in a row, usually thought of as starting on Sunday or Monday and ending the day before it starts again
A week has seven days.
Our vacation lasts one week, from Saturday to Saturday.
✦ Old English wice, from a Germanic root meaning "turn" or "change", referring to the turning of days.
the five or so days, usually Monday to Friday, when people normally work or go to school
I work forty hours a week at the office.
The school week ends on Friday afternoon.
✦ Derived from the primary sense of "week" as seven days; by extension, it came to mean the regular sequence of workdays within that period.
happening or appearing once every week
Our team holds a weekly meeting every Monday morning.
The town hosts a weekly farmers' market in the square.
✦ From Old English wīclīċe (“weekly, once a week”), from wīc (“week”) + -ly.
once each week; every week
We meet weekly to discuss our progress.
I water the plants weekly so they stay healthy.
a magazine or newspaper that is published once every week
He always picks up a weekly on his way to work.
Several popular weeklies feature celebrity news.
