week

/wiːk/

US pronunciation

American sound/wiːk/

week

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Long vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> week

Myanmar meaning

(n) ရက်သတ္တပတ်။တစ်ပတ်တွင်းအလုပ်ချိန်၊စာသင်ချိန်(နာရီ)။စနေ၊တနင်္ဂနွေ မှအပ အခြားငါးရက်။

Full entry

week /wi:k/ n

၁။ (က) တစ်ပတ်။ last/next/this week ❍ early next week ❍ at the end of last week ❍ What day of the week is it? ❍ He comes to see us once a week. (ခ) ရက်သတ္တပတ်။ (တစ်) ပတ်။ a six weeks course ❍ a week ago today (ie seven days ago) ❍ three weeks ago yesterday (ie 22 days ago) ❍ They are going on a trip for two weeks. ❍ I'll be away for no more than a week. See also holy-week
၂။ (က) တနင်္ဂနွေမှအပ အခြား ခြောက်ရက်။ During the week, the road is very busy but there is very little traffic on Sundays. (ခ) စနေ၊ တနင်္ဂနွေမှ အပ အခြားငါးရက်။ They live in town during the week and go to the country for the weekend. ❍ I never have time to go to the cinema in the week. (ဂ) တစ်ပတ်အတွင်း အလုပ်ချိန်၊ စာသင်ချိန် (နာရီ)။ a 35-hour week ❍ The government is introducing a shorter working week. ❍ How many lessons are there in the school week?
❏ today, tomorrow, Monday, etc week [IDM ] (…နေ့ ကစ၍) တစ်ပတ်အတွင်း။ I'll see you on Thursday week.
❏ week after week [IDM ] (infml ) တစ်ပတ်ပြီးတစ်ပတ်။ Week after week the drought continued.
❏ week by week [IDM ] တစ်ပတ်ထက်တစ်ပတ်။ Week by week he grew a little stronger.
❏ week in, week out [IDM ] အပတ်စဉ်။ အပတ်တိုင်း။ Every Sunday, week in, week out, she writes to her parents.
❏ a week last Monday, yesterday, etc [IDM ] (esp Brit ) …မတိုင်မီတစ်ပတ်က။ It was a week yesterday (that) we heard the news.
❏ weekly adj , adv တစ်ပတ်တစ်ခါ။ အပတ်စဉ်။ weekly payments ❍ a weekly shopping trip ❍ Wages are paid weekly. ❍ The machine must be checked weekly.
n အပတ်စဉ်ထုတ် သတင်းစာ၊ စာစောင်။
❏ a week next/on/this Monday; a week tomorrow, etc [IDM ] …နေ့ကစ၍ တစ်ပတ်။
It's my birthday a week on Monday.

More examples

He travels south two days a week.
That left ten pounds per week for food.
[last/next week] : He will meet his uncle in Geneva next week.
I haven’t seen her in over a week.
They spent two weeks in Florida.
We’re seeing Jim a week on Tuesday (=seven days from next Tuesday).
[week after week] : I was doing the same old thing, week after week.
[Monday/Tuesday etc week] : I’ll be home Thursday week.
They work a 35-hour week.
She stays in the city during the week.
National Children’s Week (=a week in which people raise money for children)

Synonyms

age, allotment, bit, bout, chronology, clock, continuance, date, day, duration, epoch, era, eternity, extent, future, generation, go, hour, infinity, instance, instant, interval, juncture, lastingness, life, life span, lifetime, many a moon, moment, month, occasion, pace, past, period, point, present, season, second, shift, space, span, spell, stage, stint, stretch, tempo, term, tide, tour, turn, while, year

Antonyms

ending, future, past