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wk.

wk. is the abbreviation of week.

wk. is the abbreviation of work.

wk. is the abbreviation of weak.

Meaning of week

Noun

week (plural weeks)

  1. 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
  2. A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
  3. A period of five days beginning with Monday.
  4. 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.
  5. (following a named day) 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]

See all 6 meanings of week

Meaning of work

Noun

work (countable and uncountable, plural works)

  1. Labour, occupation, job.
    • My work involves a lot of travel.
  2. The place where one is employed.
    • He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.
  3. (broadly) One's employer.
    • I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.
  4. (dated) A factory; a works.
    • In trials of a Martin furnace in a steel work at Remscheiden, Germany, a lining of zirconia was found in good condition after[…]1917, Platers' Guide, page 246
  5. Effort expended on a particular task.
    • Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
  6. Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
    • We know what we must do. Let's go to work.

See all 51 meanings of work

Forms of wk.

pluralwks.

Questions about wk.

What is wk. the abbreviation of?
Wk. is the abbreviation of week.

Words near wk. in the dictionary

  1. WJC
  2. WJCs
  3. WJHC
  4. WJs
  5. wk
  6. wk.
  7. WKB
  8. wkbk
  9. wkbks
  10. wkd.
  11. wkds.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wk. (page history and authors); week (page history and authors); work (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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