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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Mottet so far has received a $10 gift card in exchange for posts including videos of her trying on new clothes in a Target changing room and a roundup of her weekly Target shop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Local stock futures are up by almost 0.6% ahead of Monday’s open, suggesting that the S&P/ASX 200 will rally from the 0.75% drop that wrapped up a third straight weekly decline on Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Raised in a Pakistani household, she remembers these programmes as a weekly link to the culture her parents had grown up with.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Even with the slight dip on Friday, the yield ended the week at 4.68%, the highest weekly closing yield since January 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
As soon as he was strong enough to travel by train again, he resumed his weekly trips to Amsterdam to get Naval Observatory time.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
With encouragement from community leaders, CherryRoad on April 26 announced plans to launch weeklies replacing the Hutchinson Leader and Litchfield Independent Review, two of eight Minnesota papers that Alden just closed.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024
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
Two weeklies, which were unpopular from the first, began to be published at Boston early in 1831.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May
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