week
/wiːk/
#172 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
A period of seven days, usually counted from Monday to Sunday.
Word origin
From Old English wicu, meaning a period of seven days, shared across the old Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- wicu
Grammar
Gender
Pluralweeks
Examples
five week.
"Week" means the period of seven days.
away weeks summer.
"Weeks" is the plural, meaning more than one week.
visit next week.
"Week" here means the seven days that come after this one.
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