weekly

1 of 3

adverb

week·​ly ˈwē-klē 

: every week : once a week : by the week

weekly

2 of 3

adjective

1

: occurring, appearing, or done weekly

weekly meetings

2

: reckoned by the week

weekly rental rates

weekly

3 of 3

noun

plural weeklies

: a weekly newspaper or periodical

Examples of weekly in a Sentence

Adjective

I make weekly trips to the grocery store.

Recent Examples on the Web

Adverb

To learn more, the researchers relied on a unique dataset created by analyzing seawater samples that have been collected twice weekly from La Jolla’s Scripps Pier since 2018. —Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026

New two-hour episodes air weekly during the same time slot, the first four of which will cover the audition process. —Erin Lassner, HollywoodReporter, 26 Jan. 2026

Adjective

Business The inside story of DeepMind Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking. —Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026

Use hallway conversations, Slack channels, email threads, and weekly meetings to share your work across the office. —Chris Lipp, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026

Noun

The nine-episode series will continue to drop one episode weekly until the finale on March 26. —Selome Hailu, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026

Add a weekly yoga class, hike with friends, session in the garden or a tennis lesson into your routine alongside daily walks and jogs and twice-weekly strength training sessions. —Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 26 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adverb

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Adjective

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun

1825, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for weekly

• bleakly
• meekly
• weakly
• biweekly
• obliquely
• uniquely

Kids Definition

weekly

1 of 2 adjective

week·​ly ˈwē-klē 

1

: occurring, done, produced, or published every week

2

: figured by the week

a weekly wage

weekly adverb

weekly

2 of 2 noun

plural weeklies

: a weekly publication