Fortnight

Word FORTNIGHT
Character 9
Hyphenation fort night
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Fortnight"

What do we mean by fortnight?

A period of 14 days; two weeks. noun

The space of fourteen days; two weeks. noun

The space of fourteen days; two weeks. noun

A period of fourteen nights; two weeks. noun

After a fortnight has passed. adverb

A period of fourteen consecutive days noun

A period of 2 weeks.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Fortnight

The word "fortnight" in example sentences

General meeting to be adjourned from fortnight to fortnight* ntil committees are appointed. ❋ Unknown (1795)

If you think it useful to write to me, within a fortnight from the present date, direct to me at the post-office, Portsmouth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"One weekend in a fortnight is what's commonly awarded and it's not a meaningful time," said Adrienne Burgess, director of research at the Fatherhood Institute. ❋ Tracy McVeigh (2010)

The Lib Dems are a minority administration, so the next fortnight is going to involve a fair amount of negotiation. ❋ Stephen Tall (2007)

One of the most important names mentioned in the past fortnight is that of Marshall Zhukov. ❋ Unknown (1953)

A fortnight is not too long for a healthy man to restrain himself with advantage. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Alas! thought she, how long, in the careful and rare wear of Etherington and Cleves, all this would have served me; while here, in this daily use, a fortnight is scarce passed, yet all is spoilt and destroyed. ❋ Unknown (1796)

Surely the acquaintance of a fortnight is very insufficient to form her judgment of a character on which the happiness of her whole life is to depend. ❋ Unknown (1793)

Soon, did I say! when not a fortnight is yet expired of the long and tedious month I must linger out here! ❋ Unknown (1778)

The Whites, who sealed the title a fortnight ago, remain on course to break the 100-point barrier. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is perhaps connected with the ancient Celtic and Teutonic habit of reckoning by nights instead of days -- a trace of this is left in our word "fortnight" -- but it must be remembered that the Church encouraged the same tendency by her solemn services on the Eves of festivals, and that the Jewish ❋ Clement A. Miles (N/A)

If you’re an Olympics tragic or an uber-patriotic type, then your big challenge for the next fortnight is working out how many late-night broadcasts you can watch without destroying your career, using Google to locate your favourite obscure event, and adding a few #080808 tags to your Twitter feed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What about sentences that merely link patent synonyms, as in “Lawyers are attorneys,” or “A fortnight is a period of fourteen days”? ❋ Rey, Georges (2008)

“A fortnight is the usual order, but you can get it extended.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

About 100 children are reportedly attending the school which started up at the beginning of the new term a fortnight ago. ❋ Unknown (1996)

A fortnight was her usual period -- a month at most under exceptional circumstances. ❋ Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 (1959)

He cannot, however, do anything for the next fortnight, which is a nuisance. ❋ James Seaton Cockburn (N/A)

Of course, it took time for these sentiments to circulate through the school, and for a better feeling for Amy Gregg to come to the surface; but the poor girl was laid up for two weeks in Mrs. Sadoc Smith's best bedroom, and a fortnight is a long time in a girls 'boarding school. ❋ Alice B. Emerson (N/A)

Kennedy and myself were as yet exempt from that duty for a fortnight, which is the privilege granted to each new comer. ❋ I. E. M. (N/A)

In England, an edition of 5,000 copies a fortnight was the rule for many months after the one-volume edition appeared; hundreds of thousands have been circulated in the sixpenny and sevenpenny editions; it has been translated into most foreign tongues; and it is still, after thirty years, a living book. ❋ Ward, Mrs Humphry (1918)

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