Definition of week

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Week (n.) A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next..

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Run :: Run (a.) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week..
Shooting :: Shooting (n.) A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting..
Late :: Late (a.) Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night..
Weekly :: Weekly (a.) Coming, happening, or done once a week; hebdomadary; as, a weekly payment; a weekly gazette..
Gang-flower :: Gang-flower (n.) The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week..
Month :: Month (n.) One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month..
Semiweekly :: Semiweekly (a.) Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip..
Cross-week :: Cross-week (n.) Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions..
Calendar :: Calendar (n.) An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac..
Doldrums :: Doldrums (n. pl.) A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors..
Fast :: Fast (v. i.) A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast..
Semiweekly :: Semiweekly (adv.) At intervals of half a week each.
Weekwam :: Weekwam (n.) See Wigwam.
Till :: Till (v. t.) To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week..
Scrutiny :: Scrutiny (n.) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day..
Coming :: Coming (a.) Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition..
Wednesday :: Wednesday (a.) The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday.
Showbread :: Showbread (n.) Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place..
Weekly :: Weekly (adv.) Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly..
Cresselle :: Cresselle (n.) A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent..
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