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"Seven-day period"

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4 lettersPronunciation /wiːk/Part of speech nounSorted eekwStarts with WEnds with K1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A period of seven days.

Word origin

From Middle English wyke, weke, from Old English wiċe, wucu (“week”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“sequence; week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, curve”). Related to weak and dialectal English wick (“corner”); see Proto-Germanic *wīk(w)aną (“to bend, yield, cease”).

Used in a sentence

  • Some of the same areas hit by tornadoes just a little over a week ago are expecting severe storms again Monday afternoon and evening.
  • A 4-day week consists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
  • I'll see you Thursday week. [a week on Thursday, i.e. Thursday after next]

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