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weekly

adv
/ˈwiːk.li/

Etymology

From Middle English wykely (adverb), equivalent to week + -ly (adverbial suffix) or week + -ly (adjectival suffix). Compare Dutch wekelijks (“weekly”), German wöchentlich (“weekly”), Danish ugentlig (“weekly”), Norwegian ukentlig (“weekly”), Icelandic vikulega (“weekly”), Swedish veckovis (“weekly”).

  1. inherited from wykely

Definitions

  1. Once every week.

    • She visits her mother weekly.

  2. Every week.

  3. Of or relating to a week.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Happening once a week, or every week.

      • He's going for his weekly check-up at the hospital.
      • In summer, we cut the grass on a weekly basis.
      • In Virginia, gone are the weekly outings to Walmart to stock up on provisions; to El Ranchito, the Mexican convenience store, to buy shell-shaped concha pastries; and to the laundromat to machine wash heavily soiled garments.

    2. A publication that is published once a week.

    3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

biweekly, semi-weekly, thrice-weekly, twice-weekly, twi-weekly

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for weekly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA