WEEK AFTER WEEK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does week after week mean? 

• WEEK AFTER WEEK (adverb)
  The adverb WEEK AFTER WEEK has 1 sense:

1. for an indefinite number of successive weeks

  Familiarity information: WEEK AFTER WEEK used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEEK AFTER WEEK (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

For an indefinite number of successive weeks

 Context examples 

He was courting her week after week.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Day after day, week after week, month after month, I was coldly neglected.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Day after day, week after week, passed away on my return to Geneva; and I could not collect the courage to recommence my work.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Week after week his was the credit of the unprecedented performance of having two books at the head of the list of best-sellers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In one way, indeed, he bade fair to ruin us, for he kept on staying week after week, and at last month after month, so that all the money had been long exhausted, and still my father never plucked up the heart to insist on having more.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She, who had seen her week after week so constantly suffering, oppressed by anguish of heart which she had neither courage to speak of, nor fortitude to conceal, now saw with a joy, which no other could equally share, an apparent composure of mind, which, in being the result as she trusted of serious reflection, must eventually lead her to contentment and cheerfulness.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I am aware that you may be left here week after week, if Sir Thomas cannot settle everything for coming himself, or sending your aunt's maid for you, without involving the slightest alteration of the arrangements which he may have laid down for the next quarter of a year.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)