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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. By the week; from week to week.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. In periods of seven days; weekly.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. In periods of seven days; weekly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. without missing a week

Etymologies

  1. hebdomadal +‎ -ly (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Behold the whole huge earth sent to me hebdomadally in a brown-paper wrapper!”

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  • “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? '”

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  • “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.”

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  • “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

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‘hebdomadally’ has been looked up 1766 times, added to 9 lists, commented on 5 times, and has a Scrabble score of 24.