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Week

A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.

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Broader term 1

Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Rag 76% connected

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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Weekly 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Weekly 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.

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Component part 1

Midweek 70% connected

The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.

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Month 70% connected

One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of…

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Hebdomad 92% connected

A week; a period of seven days.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Corniferous adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called…

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Customariness noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of agreeing with, or being established by, custom or common usage.; "The customariness of Jesus' attendance at sy…

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Declination noun · 78% connection

The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or betw…

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Equimultiple noun · 78% connection

One of the products arising from the multiplication of two or more quantities by the same number or quantity. Thus, seven times 2, or…

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Era noun · 78% connection

A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of A…

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February noun · 78% connection

The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty…

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Hebdomadally adverb · 78% connection

In periods of seven days; weekly.

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Hebdomadary adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.

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Heptad noun · 78% connection

An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms…

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Heptagon noun · 78% connection

A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.

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Heptarchy noun · 78% connection

A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.

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Jubilee noun · 78% connection

Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew…

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Key noun · 78% connection

A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three,…

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Leap year unknown · 78% connection

Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-ni…

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Lunation noun · 78% connection

The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from…

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Mars noun · 78% connection

One of the planets of the solar system, the fourth in order from the sun, or the next beyond the earth, having a diameter of about 4,2…

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Obitual adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to obits, or days when obits are celebrated; as, obitual days.

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Olympiad noun · 78% connection

A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to ano…

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