How do you use the word "week" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "week": It may freeze next week. You'd be surprised what you can learn in a week.

Week Meaning

/wiːk/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAny period of seven consecutive days.

nounA period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.

Sentence Examples

It may freeze next week.

You'd be surprised what you can learn in a week.

Politicians will be debating the bill later this week.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

workweek

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

She will return from her vacation in one ____, which is seven days from now.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We are planning to go on holiday for a ____ this summer to a beautiful lake in the mountains today.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyg-der. Proto-Germanic *wikǭ Proto-West Germanic *wikā Old English wiċe Middle English wyke English week 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”). Cognates Cognate with Scots ouk, oulk (“week”), Yola wick, wik (“week”), North Frisian waag, Week, weg (“week”), Saterland Frisian Wiek, Wíek (“week”), West Frisian wike (“week”), Bavarian Wochn (“week”), Cimbrian boch, bòcha (“week”), Dutch week (“week”), German Woche (“week”), German Low German Week (“week”), Limburgish waek, Wéëk (“week”), Luxembourgish Woch (“week”), Mòcheno boch (“week”), Vilamovian woch (“week”), Yiddish וואָך (vokh, “week”), Danish uge (“week”), Elfdalian wiku, wikå (“week”), Faroese and Icelandic vika (“week”), Jamtish vuku (“week”), Norwegian Bokmål uke (“week”), Norwegian Nynorsk veke, vika, viku, vukku, vuku (“week”), Scanian uga (“week”), Swedish vecka (“week”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō, “sequence; week”); also Cornish gwigh (“periwinkles, whelks”), Irish faocha, faochóg (“periwinkle”), Latin vicis (“alteration, turn; time”), Ancient Greek εἴκω (eíkō, “to yield”), Albanian vig (“bier, litter, stretcher”), Northern Kurdish avêtin, avitin, avîtin, havêtin, havîtin (“to cast, hurl, throw”), Persian آویختَن (âvixtan, “to hang, suspend”), بیختن (bēxtan / bixtan, “to sieve, sift”). Related also to Old English wīcan (“to yield, give way”), English weak and wick.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return." — 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, archived from the original on 01 May 2024, page 68:

"Some of the same areas hit by tornadoes just a little over a week ago are expecting severe storms again Monday afternoon and evening." — 2024 May 5, Allison Chinchar, “Multiday severe weather threat could continue tornado streak this week”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 May 2024:

"And ho, ho, ho, went Mister Pig, and week, week, week, went she; […]" — 1837, William Evans Burton, Burton's Comic Songster, page 229:

"[…] his head came a-top of one of a litter of young pigs that happened at that moment to be foraging about: week! week! week! week! week! cried little piggy." — 1848, The Garland, Or, Token of Friendship, page 231:

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