Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- By the week; from week to week.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In periods of seven days; weekly.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. without missing a week
Examples
“Behold the whole huge earth sent to me hebdomadally in a brown-paper wrapper!”
“As the bee's pronouncer asked Nicholas to spell the word "hebdomadally, '' the 11-year-old fifth-grader from Harmon Middle School good-naturedly responded," Heb-what-a-lee? '”
“He knew that word because he'd studied a lot of Latin and Greek, but when Dr. Bailey said hebdomadally, it didn't sound anything like the other words that he did know.”
“I was excited, not nervous. hebdomadally [a word from Greek, via Latin, meaning "weekly"], spelling it hebdomitally.”
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reesetee Too true. Aug 27, 2007
faraway Yeah, that's the problem with real life conversations - no Wordie links. Aug 24, 2007
reesetee Sure does. Unfortunately, the excitement probably wanes after the fifth or sixth time you have to explain the word to someone. ;-) Aug 23, 2007
faraway Dramatic, isn't it? :) To me it sounds like it's beating a drum. It actually makes "weekly" seem quite exciting. Aug 22, 2007
reesetee Great word, faraway! Aug 22, 2007