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.
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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.
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After the Palisades fire, the ranch began hosting weekly community potluck dinners for anyone who lost their home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Investors aren’t bailing on the stock market, despite an ugly selloff in technology names this week that helped to saddle the S&P 500 with its worst weekly showing in months.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
Leo himself announced the news of his operation during his weekly Sunday prayers, telling the crowd in St Peter's Square that doctors had found a nodule on his lung.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
I’ve suggested we two hold weekly or bimonthly meetings—informal yet complete with agendas to better establish our priorities—to introduce structure, rhythm and ritual to our partnership.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
I was not a daily writer, or even a weekly writer: I picked up a pen only when I had the time and energy to sort through my jumbled feelings.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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
The margins have moved closer to the center, thanks in no small measure to the cadre of alternative weeklies that for generations called attention to what the media were leaving out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
The Victoria-based publisher took over his father’s community paper in 1975 and built it into a chain of more than 150 dailies and weeklies across Western Canada and several U.S. states.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
Two weeklies, which were unpopular from the first, began to be published at Boston early in 1831.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Frederic May Holland
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