Definition of "week" []

• A period of seven days: a week of rain. (noun)
• A seven-day calendar period, especially one starting with Sunday and continuing through Saturday: this week. (noun)
• A week designated by an event or holiday occurring within it: commencement week. (noun)
• A week dedicated to a particular cause or institution: Home Safety Week. (noun)
• The part of a calendar week devoted to work, school, or business: working a three-day week. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "_A week, a week, a week_, replied the stubborn little animal."
• "Christmas week, by which I understood _next week_; I thought Christmas week was that which Christmas Sunday ushered in."
• "_corvée_, that is to say, an unfixed amount of ploughing, which the steward could demand every week when it was needed; the distinction corresponds to the distinction between _week work_ and _boon work_ in the later Middle Ages."