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Noun: week  week
  1. Any period of seven consecutive days
    "it rained for a week";
    - hebdomad
     
  2. Hours or days of work in a calendar week
    "they worked a 40-hour week";
    - workweek [N. Amer], working week [Brit]
     
  3. A period of seven consecutive days (usually reckoned to be from Sunday to Saturday, or from Monday to Sunday)
    - calendar week

Sounds like: ways, weighs

Derived forms: weeks

Type of: period, period of time, time period, time span, work time

Part of: calendar month, month

Encyclopedia: Week, Somerset