WEEK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does week mean? 

• WEEK (noun)
  The noun WEEK has 3 senses:

1. any period of seven consecutive days

2. hours or days of work in a calendar week

3. a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday

  Familiarity information: WEEK used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEEK (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 ("week" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "week"):

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 "week"):

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:

weekly (of or occurring every seven days)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hours or days of work in a calendar week

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

week; workweek

Context example:

they worked a 40-hour week

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

work time (a time period when you are required to work)

Holonyms ("week" is a part of...):

calendar week; week (a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

calendar week; week

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "week"):

week; workweek (hours or days of work in a calendar week)

midweek (the middle of a week)

Holonyms ("week" is a part of...):

calendar month; month (one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year)

Derivation:

weekly (of or occurring every seven days)

 Context examples 

For weeks and months he never made a sound, in the black silence eating his very soul.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) In the last week, how much relief have pain treatments or medications provided?

(BPI - Relief Pain Treatments Provided, NCI Thesaurus)

They had him alone at their mercy every other night in the week.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Vaccines that the patient received within four weeks prior to the current vaccine administration date being reported.

(Other Vaccinations Given within Four Weeks, NCI Thesaurus)

I have been here a week to-morrow—half my time.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Even friend Jonathan, who lived with him for weeks, did never see him to eat, never!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A week passed, and no news arrived of Mr. Rochester: ten days, and still he did not come.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The day of the week on which a person was born.

(Birth Day, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a question of weeks.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Some weeks ago Mr. Blessington came down to me in, as it seemed to me, a state of considerable agitation.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)