Is there such a noun?

[Denise H. G.]

Is there a noun for the seven days in a week as a whole?
I mean, does 'weekdays' mean all the seven days in a week?

Thanks!

[Pat Durkin]

Post by Denise H. G.
Is there a noun for the seven days in a week as a whole?
I mean, does 'weekdays' mean all the seven days in a week?

I think that when one specifies "weekdays" one is thinking in terms of
the normal working days, Monday through Friday. The counterpart is, of
course, the "weekend".

I don't know of any current word in the US for the entire week. There
may be some British dialectal use of "seven night" (se'night), as
compared with "fourteen nights"(fortnight). However, I think se'night
(I am only guessing at the spelling--I know I have seen the expression)
might be obsolete.

[Raymond S. Wise]

Post by Pat Durkin

Post by Denise H. G.
Is there a noun for the seven days in a week as a whole?
I mean, does 'weekdays' mean all the seven days in a week?

I think that when one specifies "weekdays" one is thinking in terms of
the normal working days, Monday through Friday. The counterpart is, of
course, the "weekend".
I don't know of any current word in the US for the entire week. There
may be some British dialectal use of "seven night" (se'night), as
compared with "fourteen nights"(fortnight). However, I think se'night
(I am only guessing at the spelling--I know I have seen the expression)
might be obsolete.

Webster's Third has "sennight," with "se'nnight" as a rarer variant,
and labels them "archaic." The only synonym it shows for them is
"week."


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Post by Raymond S. Wise
Webster's Third has "sennight," with "se'nnight" as a rarer variant,
and labels them "archaic." The only synonym it shows for them is
"week."

Around early 19th Century. Mr Collins's letter to Mr Bennet in which he
invited himself to Longbourne. Pride and Prejudice.

[R H Draney]

Post by Raymond S. Wise

Post by Pat Durkin
I don't know of any current word in the US for the entire week. There
may be some British dialectal use of "seven night" (se'night), as
compared with "fourteen nights"(fortnight). However, I think se'night
(I am only guessing at the spelling--I know I have seen the expression)
might be obsolete.

Webster's Third has "sennight," with "se'nnight" as a rarer variant,
and labels them "archaic." The only synonym it shows for them is
"week."

Then Webster's Third needs to be told about "hebdomad"....r

[Nick Spalding]

Raymond S. Wise wrote, in

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Post by Pat Durkin

Post by Denise H. G.
Is there a noun for the seven days in a week as a whole?
I mean, does 'weekdays' mean all the seven days in a week?

I think that when one specifies "weekdays" one is thinking in terms of
the normal working days, Monday through Friday. The counterpart is, of
course, the "weekend".
I don't know of any current word in the US for the entire week. There
may be some British dialectal use of "seven night" (se'night), as
compared with "fourteen nights"(fortnight). However, I think se'night
(I am only guessing at the spelling--I know I have seen the expression)
might be obsolete.

Webster's Third has "sennight," with "se'nnight" as a rarer variant,
and labels them "archaic." The only synonym it shows for them is
"week."

"Weary sennights nine times nine,
Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine."

First witch in The Scottish Play.

[Mark Brader]

Post by Denise H. G.
Is there a noun for the seven days in a week as a whole?

"Week."

Post by Denise H. G.
I mean, does 'weekdays' mean all the seven days in a week?

No, it means Monday through Friday.

[ray o'hara]

Post by Denise H. G.
Is there a noun for the seven days in a week as a whole?

Yes, it is week. why would we need another?

[Robert Bannister]

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Post by Denise H. G.
Is there a noun for the seven days in a week as a whole?

Yes, it is week. why would we need another?

I think the OP was searching for "days of the week", which would seem to
be the only way we have of expressing it.

[Lars Eighner]

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the lovely and talented Denise H. G.

Post by Denise H. G.
Is there a noun for the seven days in a week as a whole?
I mean, does 'weekdays' mean all the seven days in a week?

The more I look at this question, the less I understand it.

Yes, there is a noun for the seven days in a week as a whole. It is "week."
Since every day belongs to a week (so far as weeks are concerned, there are
no intercalary days), the word for a day regardless of when it falls in a
week is "day." The term for a week beginning on Sunday and ending on
Saturday, as most Western calendars are arranged, is "calendar week."

In American English, "weekdays" mean the days Monday through Friday.
"Weekend" means the days Saturday and Sunday (together).

[j***@yahoo.com]

Post by Denise H. G.
Is there a noun for the seven days in a week as a whole?
I mean, does 'weekdays' mean all the seven days in a week?
Thanks!

You might be think of "day of the week", as in "What day of the week is
the 25th?" or "It depends on what day of the week it happens on."

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Post by Denise H. G.
Is there a noun for the seven days in a week as a whole?
I mean, does 'weekdays' mean all the seven days in a week?
Thanks!

You might be think of "day of the week"

...

Then again, you might be thinking of it. Or looking for it.

[Prai Jei]

Denise H. G. (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message

Post by Denise H. G.
Is there a noun for the seven days in a week as a whole?
I mean, does 'weekdays' mean all the seven days in a week?
Thanks!

There's the archaic "sennight" scrunched from "seven nights" (by analogy
with the still current "fortnight" from "fourteen nights") to refer to the
specific elapsed period of a week.

[tinwhistler]

Post by Denise H. G.
Is there a noun for the seven days in a week as a whole?
I mean, does 'weekdays' mean all the seven days in a week?

If one were really desperate, a stretched or strained resort might be
had to this OED2 entry for "hebdomadic, adj." [obs.]:

[f. Gr. ________- hebdomad + -ic.]

Pertaining to the days of the week.

a1681 Wharton Dominical Lett. Wks. (1683) 68 Seven Hebdomadick
[printed Hebdomaick] Letters used be, And those are A. B. C. D. E. F.
G.

I suppose the noun form would be "hebdomad" -- seven times weekly to
go mad.