HEBDOMAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hebdomad mean? 

• HEBDOMAD (noun)
  The noun HEBDOMAD has 1 sense:

1. any period of seven consecutive days

  Familiarity information: HEBDOMAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEBDOMAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any period of seven consecutive days

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

hebdomad; week

Context example:

it rained for a week

Hypernyms ("hebdomad" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meronyms (parts of "hebdomad"):

calendar day; civil day (a day reckoned from midnight to midnight)

day of the week (any one of the seven days in a week)

weekend (a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hebdomad"):

week from Monday (a time period of a week or more)

rag; rag week (a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities)

Holy Week; Passion Week (the week before Easter)

shibah; shiva; shivah ((Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative)

Derivation:

hebdomadal; hebdomadary (of or occurring every seven days)