Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A group of seven.
  • noun A period of seven days; a week.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The number seven; the idea of seven, or the quality of being seven in number.
  • noun The sum of seven things; a collection of seven persons or things; specifically, a group of seven days; a week.
  • noun In some Gnostic systems, a group of super-human beings, angels, or divine emanations; in the systems of Basilides and Valentinus, the sphere of the Demiurge, sublunary, and lower than the ogdoad, or a title of the Demiurge himself.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A week; a period of seven days.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A group of seven.
  • noun A period of seven days, a week.
  • noun Gnosticism A group of seven superhuman beings.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any period of seven consecutive days

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin hebdomas, hebdomad-, the number seven, from Greek, from hebdomos, seventh, from hepta, seven; see septm̥ in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Late Latin hebdomas, from Ancient Greek ἑβδομάς (hebdomas, "group of seven"), from ἑπτά (hepta, "seven")

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  • It's only Monday so here's a chance to liven up your week!

    October 6, 2008

  • "The Councillors, not knowing what to do, kept their hands up or stuck in mid-motion. She approached their dazed hebdomad and their startled servants, stiffening her backbone, cocking the hammers of her eyes."

    Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat, p 387

    July 24, 2011