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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fortnight has 1 sense
- fortnight(n = noun.time) two weeks - a period of fourteen consecutive days; "most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight" is a kind of period, period of time, time period
Derived form adjective fortnightly1
CIDE DICTIONARY
fortnight, n. [Contr. fr. fourteen nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also, seven nights, sennight, a week.].
The space of fourteen days; two weeks. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fortnight, n.
1 a period of two weeks.
2 (prec. by a specified day) two weeks after (that day) (Tuesday fortnight).
1 a period of two weeks.
2 (prec. by a specified day) two weeks after (that day) (Tuesday fortnight).
Etymology
OE feowertiene niht fourteen nights
THESAURUS
fortnight
L, Sexagesima, abundant year, academic year, annum, bissextile year, boxcar, boxcars, calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, dozen, duodecimo, eighty, eleven, fifteen, fifty, fiscal year, five and twenty, forty, four and twenty, fourscore, fourscore and ten, fourteen, half a hundred, hour, leap year, long dozen, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, ninety, nonagenarian, octogenarian, quarter, quindecennial, quindecim, quindecima, quindene, quinquennium, regular year, score, second, semester, septuagenarian, session, seventy, sexagenarian, sexagenary, sexagesimo-quarto, sidereal year, sixteen, sixteenmo, sixty, sixty-four, sixty-fourmo, solar year, sun, teens, term, thirteen, thirty-two, thirty-twomo, threescore, threescore and ten, trimester, twelve, twelvemo, twelvemonth, twenty, twenty-five, twenty-four, twenty-fourmo, two dozen, two weeks, twoscore, week, weekday, year
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