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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Brent rose 1.3% to $83.55 for a 5% weekly loss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
U.S. natural gas futures edged up in rangebound trading ahead of the EIA’s weekly storage report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
For six years, he hosted “The Next Revolution,” a weekly Fox News show which Trump regularly tweeted clips from.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Eventually, he said, he was contributing weekly columns to Sp!ts, a free commuter newspaper in Amsterdam, chronicling his growing infatuation with the sport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
“It’s the club that produces the weekly news show that airs on Friday mornings on our classroom TVs. Anyway, you should come sit at our table during lunch.”
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
Most hand-printed weeklies were four pages long—the size of a broadsheet, folded once—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
Variety and Hollywood Reporter ceased publishing daily editions and now publish glossy weeklies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
Unless a local buyer is found for EO, the sales will leave Oregon with only about a dozen locally owned papers, mostly small weeklies.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Write out and fill in your Order and send it to us with the price of the weeklies you want and we will send them to you by return mail.
From The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco by Francis Worcester Doughty
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