weekly
Americanadjective
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happening or taking place once a week or every week
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determined or calculated by the week
adverb
noun
Usage
What does weekly mean? Weekly most commonly means once a week or every week. It can be used this way as an adjective, as in a weekly meeting, or an adverb, as in We plan to meet weekly. Something described as weekly may happen on the same day every week or simply once a week at any time. Weekly can also mean calculated by week, as in I used to have a weekly quota, but now it’s monthly. Weekly can also be used as a noun referring to a publication that’s published weekly, as opposed to daily or monthly, for example (a daily newspaper can be called a daily). It’s often used in the name of such publications, like Us Weekly. Example: New episodes of my weekly podcast come out every Monday.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of weekly
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; see origin at week, -ly
Explanation
If you routinely go to a yoga class every single Wednesday, you go weekly, or once every seven days. You might even refer to it as your weekly yoga class. Anything that happens once a week is weekly, whether it's your weekly viewing of a TV show, your weekly algebra study group, or your family's weekly pizza night. At work you might get a weekly paycheck — or you might have a weekly job, watering your neighbors' plants and feeding their fish every Saturday morning. A magazine or newspaper that's published once a week is sometimes called a weekly, too.
Example Sentences
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On Friday, the index sank 2.1% to close at a one-month low, and suffered its biggest weekly loss in four months.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Bray said the 13 weekly support groups have already been reduced to five, and without investment the charity will be forced to move groups online or close completely.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
The S&P 500 fell 1.1% on Friday, bringing its weekly loss to 1.9%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The decline in the gauge illustrates that the summer of the extreme bull has ended but, as Michael Hartnett’s weekly “Flow Show” notes, asset allocators are not underweight risk.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
But when we slunk in from milking, Dad was at his place at the kitchen table with the weekly newspaper, The Parke County Courier, open before him.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Most weeklies offered a daunting amount of space for small-town editors to fill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
He also formed the Casual Club Quintet, earning an honourable mention in Melody Maker, one of Britain's most influential music weeklies.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
“There used to be weeklies in the South Bay that my relatives would pick up only for the sports,” responded De la Torre, who’s of Ecuadorian descent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
Most are weeklies but three print five days per week and around a dozen print two or three days per week.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024
It was a real woman's room, full of flowers and photographs, and cushions, and piles of magazines and weeklies everywhere.
From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley
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