Fortnight Definition

fôrtnīt
noun
A period of two weeks.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • two weeks
adverb
After a fortnight has passed.
1852 Charles Dickens, Bleak House: We will proceed with the hearing on Wednesday fortnight.
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Other Word Forms of Fortnight

Noun

Singular:
fortnight
Plural:
fortnights

Origin of Fortnight

  • Middle English fourtenight alteration of fourtene night fourteen nights Old English fēowertēne fourteen kwetwer- in Indo-European roots Old English niht night nokwt- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Contracted form of Old English fēowertȳne (“fourteen”) niht (“nights”). Compare sennight.

    From Wiktionary

Fortnight Sentence Examples

  • A fortnight later he wrote to Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, "The sky begins to clear.

  • They'd traveled over a fortnight on the king's largest ship, bearing silks, game, and swords to offer as gifts with the barbarians.

  • The countess passed a fortnight in an armchair by his pillow without undressing.

  • Within a week Moscow already had fifteen thousand inhabitants, in a fortnight twenty-five thousand, and so on.

  • The patient should continue to take about 100 grains a day for at least a fortnight after he is apparently convalescent, otherwise a recrudescence is very probable.

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Words Ending With

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