week

/wik/ n [C]

Definition

› a period of seven days, either from the beginning of Sunday to the end of Saturday or from the beginning of Monday to the end of Sunday: next/last week We go to the movies about once a week.

(Definition of week n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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wee adj
weed n
weed out someone/something phrasal verb
weed v
week after week idiom
week n
weekday n
weekend n
weeklong adj
weekly adj, adv
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workweek n
work week, at workweek n
a week ago (this) idiom
a week from idiom
week after week idiom
week in, week out, at week after week idiom

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a week ago (this) idiom
a week from idiom
week after week idiom
week in, week out, at week after week idiom
the other night/week, at the other day idiom

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