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weeks

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1. weeks

   A week is a unit of time equal to seven days. It is the standard time period used for short cycles of days in most parts of the world. The days are often used to indicate common work days and rest days, as well as days of worship. Weeks are often mapped against yearly calendars, but are typically not the basis for them, as weeks are not based on astronomy. The modern seven-day week can be traced back to the Babylonians, who used it within their calendar. Other ancient cultures had different week lengths, including ten in Egypt and an eight-day week for Etruscans. The Etruscan week was adopted by the Ancient Romans, but they later moved to a seven-day week, which had spread across Western Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean. In 321 CE, Emperor Constantine officially decreed a seven-day week in the Roman Empire, including making Sunday a public holiday. This later spread across Europe, then the rest of the world. In English, the names of the days of the week are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In many languages, the days of the week are named after gods or planets visible to the eye. Such a week may be called a planetary week.Cultures vary in which days of the week are designated the first and the last, though virtually all have Saturday, Sunday or Monday as the first day. The Geneva-based ISO standards organization uses Monday as the first day of the week in its ISO week date system through the international ISO 8601 standard. Most of Europe and China consider Monday the first day of the week, most of North America and South Asia consider Sunday the first day, while Saturday is judged as the first day of the week in much of the Middle East and North Africa. Other regions are mixed, but typically observe either Sunday or Monday as the first day. The Christian and Jewish weeks begin on Sunday (a day of worship) and end with a sabbath day, both following the interpretation in the Hebrew Bible in which God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh.

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1. WEEKS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Weeks is ranked #831 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Weeks surname appeared 41,565 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 14 would have the surname Weeks.
   
   84.3% or 35,073 total occurrences were White.
   9.9% or 4,144 total occurrences were Black.
   2.4% or 1,018 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.8% or 752 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.8% or 349 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 229 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'weeks' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #682

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'weeks' in Written Corpus Frequency: #461

How to pronounce weeks?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say weeks in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of weeks in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of weeks in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of weeks in a Sentence

1. Brian McCarthy:

   Judge Jones' ruling underscores the urgency of our work to develop and implement a clear, fair and comprehensive new personal conduct policy, we expect this policy to be completed and announced in the weeks ahead. Our focus is on consistently enforcing an improved policy going forward.

2. Christy Delafield:

   For the last few weeks we have not been able to bring supplies into (Aleppo) city itself, the shelling is hourly, it has been a significant increase.

3. Asbel Kiprop:

   I am only 50 percent fit now. By the time of the (Olympic) Trials, I hope to be 70 or 80 percent, then I will be good to go, i will be running at the first Diamond League meeting in Doha in two weeks then at the Nike Meeting in Eugene, followed by Oslo and back to Kenya for the (Kenyan) Championships and Trials.

4. Jim Ritterbusch:

   Today's close didn't alter our opinion of a potentially bearish gasoline market that will be forced to recognize a sizable supply surplus when seasonal tendencies begin to reverse in a few weeks, but, for now, technical signals across the complex favor higher prices and we would continue to caution against any attempts to pick a top.

5. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   We've been waiting since 1967 and some people are making a big deal out of a few weeks.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeks
2. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html