weeks
/wiːks/
weeks is the plural of week.
Meaning of week
Noun
week (plural weeks)
- Any period of seven consecutive days.
- Holonyms: megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
- Synonyms:
- sevennight, sennight, hebdomad
- A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
- A period of five days beginning with Monday.
- A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.
- A 4-day week consists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
- A date seven days after (sometimes before) the specified day.
- I'll see you Thursday week. [a week on Thursday, i.e. Thursday after next]
Proper noun capitalized: Weeks
Weeks (countable and uncountable, plural Weekses)
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.
Forms of weeks
| plural | Weekses |
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Words formed from weeks
Phrases with weeks
- 0th weeks
- May Weeks
- rag weeks
- red weeks
- bull weeks
- bush weeks
- dead weeks
- hell weeks
- leap weeks
- tech weeks
- work weeks
- Ember weeks
22 more phrasesFewer phrases
- frosh weeks
- light weeks
- shark weeks
- white weeks
- boxing weeks
- finals weeks
- spirit weeks
- fashion weeks
- noughth weeks
- reading weeks
- working weeks
- Feast of Weeks
- five-day weeks
- revision weeks
- Rogation Weeks
- freshers' weeks
- prophetic weeks
- schoolies weeks
- technical weeks
- the Three Weeks
- Festival of Weeks
- orientation weeks
Words that rhyme with weeks
Questions about weeks
- What does weeks mean?
- Weeks means a surname.
- What is weeks the plural of?
- Weeks is the plural of week.
- What part of speech is weeks?
- Weeks is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce weeks?
- Weeks is pronounced /wiːks/.
Words near weeks in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: weeks (page history and authors); Weeks (page history and authors); week (page history and authors). 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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