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weekly

/ˈwiːk.li/

weekly adverb: once every week.

Adverb

weekly (not comparable)

  1. Once every week.
    • She visits her mother weekly.
  2. Every week.

Adjective

weekly (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a week.
  2. Happening once a week, or every week.
    • He's going for his weekly check-up at the hospital.
    • In summer, we cut the grass on a weekly basis.

Noun

weekly (plural weeklies)

  1. A publication that is published once a week.

Proper noun capitalized: Weekly

Weekly (plural Weeklys)

  1. A surname.

weekly meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

weekly in Hindi

once every week
साप्ताहिक sāptāhik
every week
साप्ताहिक sāptāhik
of or relating to a week
साप्ताहिक sāptāhik
happening once a week or every week
साप्ताहिक sāptāhik

weekly in Tamil

once every week
வாரந்தோறும் vārantōṟum

weekly in Marathi

weekly
साप्ताहिक sāptāhik

weekly in Urdu

ہفت روزہ, ہفتہ وار
More languagesFewer languages
weekly in Bengali
সাপ্তাহিক śaptahik, হপ্তা হপ্তা hopta hopta
weekly in Telugu
వారపత్రిక vārapatrika
weekly in Malayalam
വാരിക vārika, ആഴ്ചപ്പതിപ്പ് āḻcappatippŭ
weekly in Kannada
ವಾರಪತ್ರಿಕೆ, ಎಳ್ನಾಳಿಗೆ, ಸಾಪ್ತಾಹಿಕ, ವಾರದ
weekly in Punjabi
ਹਫ਼ਤਾਵਾਰ haftāvār
weekly in Gujarati
અઠવાડિક aṭhavāḍik
weekly in Odia
ସାପ୍ତାହିକ, ସପ୍ତାହିକ
weekly in Sanskrit
साप्ताहिक sāptāhika
weekly in Nepali
साप्ताहिक
weekly in Tagalog
lingguhan
weekly in Arabic
أُسْبُوعِيًّا ʔusbūʕiyyan, أُسْبُوعِيٌّ ʔusbūʕiyyun
weekly in Malay
mingguan
weekly in Indonesian
mingguan
weekly in Persian
هفتگی haftegi, هفتهنامه hafte-nâme
weekly in Vietnamese
tuần báo, tuần san
weekly in Myanmar
အပတ်စဉ် a.patcany

Examples of weekly in a sentence

  • We had to island-hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.
  • The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.
  • She gave $10 weekly to the poor as alms, in an era when $10 was serious money.

All 40 example sentences with weekly

Synonyms of weekly

Forms of weekly

Noun
pluralweeklies
Proper noun
pluralWeeklys

Origin of weekly

From Middle English wykely (adverb), equivalent to week + -ly (adverbial suffix) or week + -ly (adjectival suffix). Compare Dutch wekelijks (“weekly”), German wöchentlich (“weekly”), Danish ugentlig (“weekly”), Norwegian ukentlig (“weekly”), Icelandic vikulega (“weekly”), Swedish veckovis (“weekly”).

Words formed from weekly

Words that rhyme with weekly

Questions about weekly

What does weekly mean?
Weekly means once every week.
What is weekly in Hindi?
Weekly in Hindi is साप्ताहिक (sāptāhik). See Weekly meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is weekly?
Weekly can be an adverb, an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce weekly?
Weekly is pronounced /ˈwiːk.li/.

Words near weekly in the dictionary

  1. weekiversary
  2. Weekley
  3. Weekleys
  4. weeklies
  5. weeklong
  6. weekly
  7. weeklyish
  8. Weeklys
  9. weeknight
  10. weeknightly
  11. weeknights

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: weekly (page history and authors); Weekly (page history and authors); साप्ताहिक (Marathi) (page history and authors); weekly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); weekly (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); weekly (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); साप्ताहिक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); weekly (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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