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HEBDOMAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any period of seven consecutive days
Example:
it rained for a week
Synonyms:
hebdomad; week
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("hebdomad" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "hebdomad"):
calendar day; civil day (a day reckoned from midnight to midnight)
day of the week (any one of the seven days in a week)
weekend (a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hebdomad"):
week from Monday (a time period of a week or more)
rag; rag week (a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities)
Holy Week; Passion Week (the week before Easter)
shibah; shiva; shivah ((Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative)
Derivation:
hebdomadal; hebdomadary (of or occurring every seven days)
