hebdomadal

[ heb-dom-uh-dl ]

adjective

1. taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly:

   hebdomadal meetings;

   hebdomadal groups;

   hebdomadal journals.

noun

1. a weekly magazine, newspaper, etc. Compare diurnal ( def 7 ).

hebdomadal

/ hɛbˈdɒmədərɪ; hɛbˈdɒmədəl; -drɪ /

adjective

1. a rare word for weekly

Derived Forms

• hebˈdomadally, adverb

Other Words From

• heb·doma·dal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of hebdomadal¹

First recorded in 1605–15; from Late Latin hebdomadālis, “weekly”; hebdomad, -al ¹

Example Sentences

This young man, lately down from Oxford, was delighting the select minority who read a brilliant weekly called The Point of View with his hebdomadal destructiveness as a critic of the drama.

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Besides his personal conferences with each of his Chief Secretaries, and the hebdomadal meeting of the Executive Council, the Viceroy devoted one day a week to his Council for making Laws and Regulations.

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They are young drapers' assistants from a large manufacturing town, out for their hebdomadal holiday, which they have elected to spend in an excursion to the Wye, and a frolic at Rugg's Ferry.

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Information for the people was not yet collected into hebdomadal tracts; and those who coveted the fruit of the tree of knowledge were left to pursue their horticultural researches at their own free will.

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They are young drapers’ assistants from a large manufacturing town, out for their hebdomadal holiday, which they have elected to spend in an excursion to the Wye, and a frolic at Rugg’s Ferry.

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