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   week

   /wiːk/

   noun

   • 1. a period of seven days: "the course lasts sixteen weeks"
   • ▪ the period of seven days generally reckoned from and to midnight on Saturday night: "she has an art class twice a week"
   • ▪ workdays as opposed to the weekend; the five days from Monday to Friday: "I work during the week, so I can only get to this shop on Saturdays"
   • ▪ the time spent working during a week: "she works a 48-hour week"
   • ▪ used after the name of a day to indicate that something will happen seven days after that day: "the programme will be broadcast on Sunday week"

   Word Origin Old Englishwice, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch week and German Woche, from a base probably meaning ‘sequence, series’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • W

     4

   • E

     1

   • E

     1

   • K

     5

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