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Dec 5, 2012 This week's theme Words derived from numbers This week's words septentrional decimate hebdomad doyen dubious Roll the dice Get a random word from A.Word.A.Day archives Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg hebdomad PRONUNCIATION: (HEB-duh-mad) MEANING: noun: 1. A group of seven. 2. A period of seven days; a week. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin hebdomas, from Greek hepta (seven). Earliest documented use: 1545. USAGE: "As a string quartet, the excellent Brooklyn Rider is all about the number four. But on their new album, Seven Steps, its members circle around the mysterious -- and some might even say spiritual -- power of the hebdomad." Anastasia Tsioulcas; Brooklyn Rider, 'Seven Steps'; National Public Radio (Washington, DC); Feb 5, 2012. Explore "hebdomad" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow. -Saadi, poet (c.1213-1291)

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