fortnight Definition
fort·night (fôrt′nīt′)
noun
Chiefly Brit. a period of two weeks
Etymology: ME fourte(n) niht < OE feowertyn niht, lit., fourteen nights
fortnight Usage Examples
Converse of object
- spend: She spends two separate fortnights each year in respite care at a local nursing home to provide a break for John.
- meet: We meet once a fortnight to discuss Co-op business.
- collect: Your white sacks will therefore be collected every fortnight starting from the 19th June 2006.
- update: This section of the Engage East Midlands website will be updated every fortnight.
- wait: You can avoid this by adding the new fish one at a time, and waiting a fortnight before adding another.
- publish: The Bulletin is the staff newsletter and is published every fortnight during term time.
Adjective modifier
- nine-day: And at Pendle Boro Council a work-life balance agreement includes the option of working a four-day week or nine-day fortnight.
- past: In the past fortnight, there have been at least 55 deaths in 6 suicide bombings in Israel.
- next: Over the next fortnight most of the big stores will announce their seasonal trading figures.
- last: Within the last fortnight there has been a drop in the Pig sector.
- coming: There may be more on this over the coming fortnight.
- whole: I have, in my working days, sat up a whole fortnight with only a few winks of sleep.
Modifies a noun
- magazine: Fortnight Magazine 's monthly chronology of ' the Troubles ' .
- holiday: Photographs of pit ponies from Aberaman Colliery during miners ' fortnight holiday.
Noun used with modifier
day: I shall expect your clear decision when I return this day fortnight.
Possessives
- holiday: My fortnight's holiday was about £ 850 which seemed to me a very good deal.
- worth: Sign Up LEBANON CRISIS Emergency Food £ 55 provides a displaced Lebanese family of four with a fortnight's worth of food.
- time: A further 27 will start in a fortnight's time, " he added.
- leave: Once upon a time the big firms used to take a fortnight's compulsory leave at the same time - " trips week " .
Preposition: in
sun: I had a great fortnight in the sun, in a truly incredible country.
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